Re: ICMP (Ping)

["Jay Woody" <jay_woody () tnb com>]

Usually just your typical DoS type attacks where someone pings your box
so often that it can't reply to real requests.

JayW

> > > "Paul Kurczaba" <paul () myipis com> 09/02/03 02:19PM >>>
Are there any security issues for allowing a firewall/router to respond
to
Ping from the internet?

-Paul Kurczaba


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