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Re: [FW1] ICMP handling in 4.0 lame?




Brett Lymn wrote To THELLIER, Francis:
> A word of warning here - a lot of the distributed DoS tools that are
> being used by attackers use ICMP packets as a communication medium
> between the master controller and the DoS slave processes.  You may
> want to consider carefully why you want to have ICMP coming back into
> your intranet at all.
is there no ICMP Proxy, or checker to analyse/drop packets
with more content than the ICMP really needs?

--- End of mail from Brett Lymn ---
ciao
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