Re: IP fragmentation problem in the 2.0 kernels ?

Jon Lewis (jlewis@inorganic5.fdt.net)
Wed, 10 Sep 1997 00:12:03 -0400 (EDT)


On Tue, 9 Sep 1997, Olaf Titz wrote:

> Their setup is broken. When they block ICMP, they can't reasonably do
> Path MTU probing which depends on these ICMPs. More strictly, they
> should set their own MTU to the minimum value.

Is there a way (using kernel 2.0.x) to block types of icmp with the
firewalling code? i.e. say I have a multiport linux router and want to
block just icmp echo request and echo reply. Is there an easy way to do
it?

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