Re: Sympatico affected by 'smurf' attacks.

On Mon, 29 Dec 1997, Colin Coller wrote:

> you should also firewall icmp traffic so you aren't used as an
> intermediary. this shouldn't affect logging using tcpdump (it
> hasn't here).

for those of you who asked or are wondering,

  ipfwadm -I -i deny -P icmp -D 255.255.255.255

should do the trick.

colin
Received on Tue Dec 30 14:57:23 1997