Re: Newbie: why so many ICMPs?

[John Bertagnolli <ijbert () mac com>]

Alex -

Thanks for the reply.

> ... Note that if you've enabled the firewall during the Fedora 
> installation, it will, IIRC, generate ICMP Admin Prohibited messages 
> for incoming connections that it rejects.

I do have the Fedora firewall enabled. The last rule says to reject 
(everything else not accepted) with icmp-host-prohibited.

Thanks for the tip.

John



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