Hi Thomas,

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Thomas Kolstø [mailto:thomas at kolsto dot no] 
> Sent: Tuesday, 21 February 2006 07:20
> 
> Quark IT - Hilton Travis wrote:
> > Hi All,
> >
> > I'm trying to find a way to allow m0n0wall to reply to 
> > PING requests from the WAN side but cannot seem to 
> > find a way to allow this.  It's a bit weird to not 
> > have this configurable in the interface, especially as
> > blocking PING responses (the m0n0wall default) is in 
> > breach of RFCs.
> >
> > Any ideas?
> >   
> A firewall rule on WAN interface passing icmp from "ANY" 
> to "WAN address" should do the trick.

Yup, allowing ICMP Echo did the trick.  I still find it a bit weird that the default is to breaf
RFCs and there's no interface option to allow ping functionality.

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Regards,

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