redhat-config-securitylevel question
Bill Nottingham
notting at redhat.com
Wed Oct 1 18:01:48 UTC 2003
Pekka Pietikainen (pp at ee.oulu.fi) said:
> I noticed redhat-config-securitylevel got the following change, and
> was wondering about the rationale (bug 104561 seemed to be marked
> private last time I checked)
>
> * Thu Sep 18 2003 Bill Nottingham <notting at redhat.com> 1.2.8-1
>
> - allow ICMP in general (#104561)
>
> I was under the impression the previous version which allowed echo and
> --state RELATED,ESTABLISHED allows all the icmp traffic that is necessary to
> be a Good Internet Citizen (tm), but obviously there was some case
> it didn't cover :-)
The bug reprot was about 'need-to-fragment' messages, among others.
Bill
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