Re: 5 "Advanced" networking questions

2003-07-09 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
Socketd wrote: On Tue, 08 Jul 2003 22:51:24 -0700 Terry Lambert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hmm, why not just use a firewall? Because most firewalls, even commercial ones, don't block the ICMP messages you appear to be interested in blocking. You appeared to want to turn your FreeBSD box into what'

Re: 5 "Advanced" networking questions

2003-07-09 Thread Paul Armstrong
On Tue, Jul 08, 2003 at 10:51:24PM -0700, Terry Lambert wrote: > > > > I don't want to disable ICMP, just don't want to respond when ttl=0, > > > > meaning when my firewall/gateway is on a "traceroute path". > > > > > > You should specifically modify the ICMP code to not respond > > > to echo datag

Re: 5 "Advanced" networking questions

2003-07-09 Thread Socketd
On Tue, 08 Jul 2003 22:51:24 -0700 Terry Lambert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hmm, why not just use a firewall? > > Because most firewalls, even commercial ones, don't block the > ICMP messages you appear to be interested in blocking. > > You appeared to want to turn your FreeBSD box into what

Re: 5 "Advanced" networking questions

2003-07-08 Thread Terry Lambert
Socketd wrote: > On Tue, 08 Jul 2003 04:17:04 -0700 > Terry Lambert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I don't want to disable ICMP, just don't want to respond when ttl=0, > > > meaning when my firewall/gateway is on a "traceroute path". > > > > You should specifically modify the ICMP code to not res

Re: 5 "Advanced" networking questions

2003-07-08 Thread Socketd
On Tue, 08 Jul 2003 15:50:30 +0400 "Andrey Alekseyev" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You may also take a look at the IPSTEALTH kernel config > option (see LINT): > > # IPSTEALTH enables code to support stealth forwarding (i.e., > forwarding > # packets without touching the ttl). This can be usefu

Re: 5 "Advanced" networking questions

2003-07-08 Thread Socketd
On Tue, 08 Jul 2003 04:17:04 -0700 Terry Lambert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I don't want to disable ICMP, just don't want to respond when ttl=0, > > meaning when my firewall/gateway is on a "traceroute path". > > You should specifically modify the ICMP code to not respond > to echo datagrams,

Re: 5 "Advanced" networking questions

2003-07-08 Thread Terry Lambert
Socketd wrote: > > I guess you want to do this so that you can break path MTU > > discovery and fail to properly exchange packets with the DF > > bit set in the headers, and which don't take into account > > intermediate links with smaller MTUs, like VPNs or PPPOE > > links? > > > > What exactly ar

Re: 5 "Advanced" networking questions

2003-07-08 Thread Socketd
On Tue, 08 Jul 2003 03:17:00 -0700 Terry Lambert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Socketd wrote: > > Ok, anyway to prevent sending ICMP's when ttl = 0? Or do I need a > > firewall? > > I guess you want to do this so that you can break path MTU > discovery and fail to properly exchange packets with th

Re: 5 "Advanced" networking questions

2003-07-08 Thread Terry Lambert
Socketd wrote: > Ok, anyway to prevent sending ICMP's when ttl = 0? Or do I need a > firewall? I guess you want to do this so that you can break path MTU discovery and fail to properly exchange packets with the DF bit set in the headers, and which don't take into account intermediate links with sm

Re: 5 "Advanced" networking questions

2003-07-07 Thread Toni Andjelkovic
On Mon, Jul 07 2003 (18:02:52 +0200), Socketd wrote: > Ok, anyway to prevent sending ICMP's when ttl = 0? Or do I need a > firewall? Yes, you'd need a firewall. Cheers, Toni ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/fr

Re: 5 "Advanced" networking questions

2003-07-07 Thread Socketd
On Mon, 7 Jul 2003 17:33:14 +0200 Toni Andjelkovic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Jul 07 2003 (01:22:05 +0200), Socketd wrote: > > 1. Reading "man blackhole" I found that net.inet.udp.blackhole=1 > > will prevent traceroute. Is this only if the host is the end target? > > or will it simply d

Re: 5 "Advanced" networking questions

2003-07-07 Thread Toni Andjelkovic
On Mon, Jul 07 2003 (01:22:05 +0200), Socketd wrote: > 1. Reading "man blackhole" I found that net.inet.udp.blackhole=1 will > prevent traceroute. Is this only if the host is the end target? or will > it simply disable sending an ICMP packet when it get's a packet with > ttl=1? Look in sys/netinet

5 "Advanced" networking questions

2003-07-06 Thread Socketd
Hi all 1. Reading "man blackhole" I found that net.inet.udp.blackhole=1 will prevent traceroute. Is this only if the host is the end target? or will it simply disable sending an ICMP packet when it get's a packet with ttl=1? 2. Does net.inet.icmp.drop_redirect drop all redirects? Redirect