custom ICMP message in iptables
Bruno Wolff III
bruno at wolff.to
Wed Sep 23 13:53:22 UTC 2009
On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 12:29:46 +0530,
Jatin K <ssh.fedora at gmail.com> wrote:
> Dear all,
>
>
> I'm wondering that, is there any method to add custom ICMP message to
> iptables ... e.g say I block Echo Request (ping) through
> system-config-firewall, other systems on my network cannot ping my
> system ... but on on the system from where I try to ping .. it shows
> message like [1]
>
> [1] From xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx icmp_seq=xxx Destination Host Prohibited
> From xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx icmp_seq=xxx Destination Host Prohibited
> From xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx icmp_seq=xxx Destination Host Prohibited
> From xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx icmp_seq=xxx Destination Host Prohibited
--reject-with icmp-host-prohibited
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