security precautionswith iptables?

[Gregory Nowak]

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That's the whole point of that rule, to drop incoming pings. As for
the outgoing pings, that depends on how your outgoing chain is setup,
or possibly on if your ISP is blocking outgoing pings or not.

Greg


On Sun, May 20, 2007 at 09:34:43AM -0600, Littlefield, Tyler wrote:
> Hello list,
> I've been told to block ping requests with iptables. I made the following rule:
> iptables -A INPUT -p icmp --icmp-type echo-request -j DROP
> The only problem with this, is it drops all pings incoming as well, which causes a slight problem.
> Any way around this?
> Also, is there anything else that can be done in order to make the system more secure? I was told to block fragmented packets. I know what they are, but don't know enough about tcp in order to be able to do much with them.
> Help is appriciated.
> Thanks,
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