Weird networking problem

Fraser Campbell fraser-eicrhRFjby5dCsDujFhwbypxlwaOVQ5f at public.gmane.org
Mon Jul 12 14:20:59 UTC 2004


On July 11, 2004 02:32 am, Marcus Brubaker wrote:

> Alright, I have a strange problem that I've been up against for the past
> two or three days and am running out of ideas so I figured I'd post here
> and see if anyone could help.

You aren't blocking ICMP are you?  While blocking ICMP echo requests (icmp 
type 8) is ok, blocking all ICMP types is not.  It is rather important to 
accept at least icmp types 3, 4, 11, 12.

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