At 02:47 AM 1/2/2004, Falcor wrote:
>I still would never personally want ICMP from the WAN to my LAN... but
>that is just me.
The problem is that people tend to think of ICMP only in relation to
ping. It is, in fact, part of the IP protocol, and to be a good citizen on
the net you should let it through. Else (for example) how would a machine
on your LAN do MTU discovery?
-crl
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