On Tue, 2003-09-30 at 03:41, Denis Nikitin wrote: > PING www.redhat.com (66.187.232.50) 56(84) bytes of data. > >From thus2-hg2.ealing.broadband.bt.net (217.32.137.201) icmp_seq=1 > Packet filter > etc. > Other services are seems to be running fine(slow, but fine). > Why they would need to block all the ICMP traffic? Or it's not the > case? It might not be BT to blame, this is the home gateway, which is the edge between your ISP and BT. The home gateway could be BT managed or it may be managed by your ISP. As for why a block on all ICMP traffic, a certain worm/virus which pings hosts before attempting to infect it. -- Regards, Adam Allen. adam [at] dynamicinteraction.co.uk pgp http://search.keyserver.net:11371/pks/lookup?op=vindex&search=adam%40dynamicinteraction.co.uk
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