responding to outside ping

I just installed firestarter and was impressed, but i went to shields up
and tested my ports it said that i responded to a ping request. I enabled
ICMP could it be my Dlink 614+ responding to the ping request? If so how
could i change this? I looked through the menus on the 614 and didnt see
anything to disbale ping. Am I missingg something here? thanks RadarG

RadarG <justinnkim@cox.net> wrote:

> I just installed firestarter and was impressed, but i went to
> shields up
> and tested my ports it said that i responded to a ping request. I enabled
> ICMP could it be my Dlink 614+ responding to the ping request?

I guess you have the Linux box with firestarter behind the DLink
and you *disabled* ICMP on the Linux box but the ping request
was still answered. Right?

If yes, then only the DLink router could have answered the ping
request.


> If so how
> could i change this? I looked through the menus on the 614 and didnt see
> anything to disbale ping.

Ping requests aren't bad by itself, why do you want to block
them? The times where malformed ping request were crashing IP
stacks should be over. Disabling all ICMP stuff is even worse.


Ciao, Horst
--
»When pings go wrong (It hurts me too)« E.Clapton/E.James/P.Tscharn

RadarG wrote:

> I just installed firestarter and was impressed, but i went to
> shields up
> and tested my ports it said that i responded to a ping request. I enabled
> ICMP could it be my Dlink 614+ responding to the ping request? If so how
> could i change this? I looked through the menus on the 614 and didnt see
> anything to disbale ping. Am I missingg something here? thanks RadarG

According to D-Link online documentation, you can enable "Block WAN Ping"
on the 614+.

http://support.dlink.com/techtool/di...tools_misc.htm

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