Blocking ICMP prevents ping sweeps of your network. Ping sweeps are used in
the first phase of hacking to get a "footprint" of your network. A good
source for this informatoin is Hacking Exposed (Osborne/McGraw Hill, ISBN
0-07-212127-0).
David Hoobler
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> From: Tony Wong [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Friday, June 08, 2001 11:55 AM
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> Subject: [FW1] Blocking ICMP
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> How does blocking ICMP make my firewall more secure?
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