Ping Driving me Crazy....

[Edward]

Harry wrote:

> Hi All,
> 
> Well let me add something more, this has started happening since a couple of
> days,do any of you think it could be bcos Eth1 which is the Internal
> Interface is  getting clogged with the number of requests that are coming
> from the Windows Clients?and morever bcos of the Blaster Virus and
> Vulnerablities on Ports 135:139, the network may be getting jammed and hance
> not accepting the ping requests!Therefore is it wise to increase the Buffer
> Limits of TCP requests ?If yes can I know how it can be done?
> 
> I have also attached the Firewall script that I am using.
> 

This is from your firewall file:

# IGNORE ICMP BROADCASTS
echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/icmp_echo_ignore_broadcasts

Isn't this exactly what we're taking about? Or am I missing something?

Regards,
Ed.