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June 24th, 2002, 11:12 PM
#1
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June 24th, 2002, 11:17 PM
#2
Why would you block pings?
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June 25th, 2002, 02:05 AM
#3
Not real up on Tiny firewall but the anser is no blocking pings will not slow anything down for you. I allowing outgoing and see a response but do not allow a ping into the system. Why block a ping? Well ping of death is where it started with me, and the second is no reason for anyone to want to ping my system want to test then ping M$
I believe that one of the characteristics of the human race - possibly the one that is primarily responsible for its course of evolution - is that it has grown by creatively responding to failure.- Glen Seaborg
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June 25th, 2002, 07:38 PM
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I have to agree with Palemoon.
Blocking ICMP by itself wouldn't do anything to performance. I routinely block PING from outside my network because why does someone else need to ping me. You could just allow it outbound so that you can still ping others to test connectivty. My philosophy is if you don't specifically need, get rid of it.
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June 25th, 2002, 07:38 PM
#5
M'kay
I allowing outgoing and see a response but do not allow a ping into the system.
You're doing that with a rule? I don't think I can do that with Tiny. I could manually allow each attempt, or allow all outbound and then decided to allow inbound (but not know that there was an outbound to start with )
What firewall and OS are you using?
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