denying ping

[Mike Klinke]

On Tuesday 09 March 2004 07:19, Mitch Oliver wrote:
> 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.
>

Are you are refering to the xinetd service? If so, this won't have 
anything to do with ICMP pings.  Here is a description from the 
/etc/xinetd.d/echo control file ...

# description: 
# An xinetd internal service which echo's characters 
# back to clients. This is the tcp version.

Regards, Mike Klinke