[GTALUG] Ubuntu -- Disabling Ping

[Howard Gibson]

On Wed, 29 Aug 2018 22:03:52 -0400
Alvin Starr via talk <talk at gtalug.org> wrote:
> you could also do the following:
> 
> sudo sysctl net.ipv4.icmp_echo_ignore_all=1

Alvin,

   That's it.  I saw instructions on the internet to update /etc/sysctl.conf, but they did it wrong.  Your command line works!

   Thank you. 

   I will be updating my website to show easy install methods for Ubuntu and Fedora.

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