Re: icmp

[Ashley Thomas <athomas () unity ncsu edu>]

The point was that blocking icmp / anyother packet is done at the
firewall
rather than by the IDS.

For example in <certain> firewall, you can specify when you get an icmp
echo request you send
1. dest unreachable. 
2. do not send anything.

-ashley




Peter VE wrote:
> All I wanted to achieve is to fool the remote users, letting them believe my
> host is unreachable for icmp traffic...
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Oliver Friedrichs" <of () securityfocus com>
> To: <Peter.VE () pandora be>; <snort-users () lists sourceforge net>
> Sent: Wednesday, November 14, 2001 11:21 PM
> Subject: RE: [Snort-users] icmp
>
> > This isn't really the right thing to do.  Especially not if the host
> really
> > exists, the real host will respond, and so will your IDS.  Unless either
> (a)
> > the host doesn't exist or (b) the ICMP is also blocked by a firewall.
> Also,
> > is there any reason you want to be generating additional network traffic
> on
> > purpose?
> >
> > - Oliver
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Peter.VE () pandora be [mailto:Peter.VE () pandora be]
> > Sent: Wednesday, November 14, 2001 2:44 AM
> > To: snort-users () lists sourceforge net
> > Subject: [Snort-users] icmp
> >
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm running snort 1.8.2 on Win2K
> > I want to block ICMP (by replying to a echo request   with
> > echo_host_unreachable)
> >
> > Can I do this ?
> >
> > Does anyone have any documents on using & configuring snort on Win2K ? I'm
> > still trying to find out how it works, but I haven't found it yet...
> >
> > thanks
> >
> >
> >
> >
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