5 "Advanced" networking questions

[Socketd]

On Tue, 08 Jul 2003 04:17:04 -0700
Terry Lambert <tlambert2 at mindspring.com> wrote:

> > I don't want to disable ICMP, just don't want to respond when ttl=0,
> > meaning when my firewall/gateway is on a "traceroute path".
> 
> You should specifically modify the ICMP code to not respond
> to echo datagrams, or when ttl == 0, then, and work it that
> way.  In other words, it's time to hack your network stack
> to specifically add that "feature".

Hmm, why not just use a firewall?

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