Saturday, November 11, 2006

How to keep a computer from answering to ping?

it is possible to block pings entirely to your machine..

a simple
"echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/icmp_echo_ignore_all" will do the trick...

to turn it back on, simply
"echo 0 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/icmp_echo_ignore_all"
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