On Mon, 18 Oct 1999, Lee Wilson wrote:
> I have a machine that is getting flooded with ping requests to the point
> where it's saturating our T1 line. I don't want to turn off pings to the
> entire class C IP block with our firewall, but I'm not sure
>
> 1) how to turn off pings to a single IP address
> 2) if turning off pings at a single IP address will stop our T1 from being
> saturated anyway.
>
> Anyone have any advice on how to handle the problem?
Call your isp, give them the ip number and they can have it firewalled
before it ever gets to your T1, It's the only way. If you were to just
firewall it at your end, would not help much as it's still being sent.
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