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RE: [FW1] Blocking ICMP



BTW

There are about fifty different ping sweeps, only some of them user icmp
over udp.

George

-----Original Message-----
From: David E. Hoobler Jr. [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Sunday, June 10, 2001 7:34 AM
To: 'Tony Wong'; [email protected]
Subject: RE: [FW1] Blocking ICMP



Blocking ICMP prevents ping sweeps of your network.  Ping sweeps are used in
the first phase of hacking to get a "footprint" of your network.  A good
source for this informatoin is Hacking Exposed (Osborne/McGraw Hill, ISBN
0-07-212127-0).  

David Hoobler


> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Tony Wong [SMTP:[email protected]]
> Sent:	Friday, June 08, 2001 11:55 AM
> To:	[email protected]
> Subject:	[FW1] Blocking ICMP
> 
> How does blocking ICMP make my firewall more secure? 


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