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[Gardner Bell]

I've killed off icmp echo requests long ago actually, I just find it more a
nuisance that these people persist daily and nightly to find an opening in my
firewall.  And as Mr Sonne suggested I'd much rather have someone scan my entire
network with -PO before pinging me because it seems to be slowing my network
down at times to a complete crawl with them occurring as often as they do.
Thanks for your replies

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On Tue, 30 Sep 2003, Byron Sonne wrote:

> >> I'm curious if there is a way to stop logging this completely as it
> >> makes reading logs extremely difficult.
>
> > kill icmp type 8 (echo request) at the firewall
>
> I did much the same sometime back for the same kind of reasons.
> Consequently I rarely receive interesting scans and nothing that I'd
> ever call a serious crack has been attempted. That is not to say that
> reading the pf logfile in Ethereal isn't entertaining... pleasing
> results on one hand, but disappointing on the other; do people really
> give up so easily? Too lazy to type the extra -P0 for nmap? :)
>
> And yes, I am aware of the great potential for humour if, lets say, I
> wake up tomorrow to find I've been 0wNeD by an 31337 hAxX0r ;)
>
>
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