denying ping
Mitch Oliver
mitch_v_oliver at yahoo.com
Tue Mar 9 13:19:34 UTC 2004
If all you want to do is ignore ping requests, turn off the "echo"
service, either using redhat-config-services or ntsysv.
The ping command just sends out an echo request to the server. Without
echo, the server cannot respond to ping requests.
On Mon, 08 Mar 2004 22:00:22 -0500
russell <simmonsr at verizon.net> wrote:
> I'm trying to deny ping access on my new fedora box. I run: # echo
> 1
> > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/icmp_echo_ignore_all, but this doen't work.
> > Does
> anyone have any ideas how to deny icmp requests on fedora?
>
> tia
>
> russell
>
>
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