Questions about ICMP

[Daniel B. Thurman]

Craig White wrote:

>Sent: Wednesday, December 05, 2007 3:33 PM
>To: For users of Fedora
>Subject: Re: Questions about ICMP
>
>
>On Wed, 2007-12-05 at 15:27 -0800, Daniel B. Thurman wrote:
>> Should ICMP packets be allowed both over the
>> Internet or should it be allowed to pass only in
>> the local networks?
>> 
>> I have a firewall appliance and trying to make sure
>> that I am being secured properly.
>----
>disabling icmp echo requests is a great feature for the ultra-paranoid
>
>Craig
>
>-- 

So... am I to read this as it is a good idea to disable all icmp
requests?  I get a LOT of ICMP requests from the Internet probing
at my ports, which are disabled.  This is a good idea?

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