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Old 03-26-2006, 11:51 AM   #1
brianthegreat
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Disabling ICMP (Ubuntu/Debain based systems)


Greetings,

Have been digging around a little here and there trying to find an answer for my question the last couple of weeks.

Can you disable ICMP (So that someone cannot ping your box) for a Ubuntu/Debain based system. Had no problems at all turning off ICMP for my Fedora box.
 
Old 03-26-2006, 12:42 PM   #2
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Use iptables
 
Old 03-26-2006, 01:44 PM   #3
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Are you using sysctl? In /etc/sysctl.conf you can add net.ipv4.icmp_echo_ignore_all = 1 and restart sysctl with sysctl -p
 
Old 03-28-2006, 09:01 AM   #4
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Thanks gilead!!
 
  


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