hy, thats what i did too, but it seems that my settings are not overriden and a very restricitve set of rules is applied... regards On Mon, 4 Jun 2001, Paul Cox wrote: > On Monday, Jun 04, 2001, mp wrote: > > > But I need to allow icmp echo requests from my proxy server (if i dont answer > > the ping requests downloads get slower and slower with time, and smtp is > > blocked for 5 seconds if the ping isnt answered). > > > > So in the config file I have: > > ICMP_ALLOWED_TYPES="destination-unreachable echo-reply time-exceeded" > > I had the same problem. I added 'echo-request' so that mine now looks > like this: > > ICMP_ALLOWED_TYPES="destination-unreachable echo-reply echo-request > time-exceeded" > > and that fixed it. > > The only thing I haven't found a way around is that I can't traceroute > my box. Anybody know how to fix that? > > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED], ICQ#: 25370820, OpenPGP key at www.keyserver.net > 1024D/39F0BBF4 2024 B7CB 10BF 6BE7 2ECE E0FD 1360 0181 39F0 BBF4 > > Current Linux uptime: 3 days 13 hours 19 minutes. > >
