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From: Axalon Bloodstone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: expert Mandrake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: linuxisp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, October 22, 1999 2:19 AM
Subject: Re: [expert] Disallowing ping requests to a specific machine
> 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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> --Axalon
>
to disallow pings to a specific client, you need to have a statement like
this
regarding the ip address you want to block 192.168.25.32/255.255.255.255
or 192.168.25.32/32. to block pings, put a command at your firewall to deny
the icmp protocol to that machine.
hope that helps.
