Thank you for all the replies. This is, indeed, the answer. I am going to dig a little deeper and find where the boot routines put /proc/sys/net/ipv4/icmp_echo_ignore_all to 1. I know it's not simple. Mandrake's boot sequence covers a lot of ground.
-- j "JOHAM,DAVID (HP-Boise,ex1)" wrote: > If you would like to enable pingnig, try putting this into your firewall > script: > > echo "0" > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/icmp_echo_ignore_all > echo "0" > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/icmp_echo_ignore_broadcasts > > HTH > > David > > -----Original Message----- > From: Jeremy Mereness [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, June 11, 2002 7:59 PM > To: Expert Mandrake List > Subject: [expert] Pinging Secure Mandrake > > The table on http://www.mandrakesecure.net/en/docs/msec.php shows that > Security Level 4 and higher causes ICMP Echo (ping) packets to get > dropped. > > How is this accomplished? Is it in the kernel itself? I thought it might > have been a pre-defined IPtables rule executed by an msec script, but my > IPtables are empty. Yet pings still get dropped. > > Thanks! > > -- j ################################################################# ################################################################# ################################################################# ##### ##### ##### ################################################################# ################################################################# #################################################################
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