Subject: Re: ICMP Broadcast
To: Diego Linke - GAMK <linke@calnet.com.br>
From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 10/09/2001 21:48:38
On Tue, Oct 09, 2001 at 03:47:10PM -0300, Diego Linke - GAMK wrote:
> Hi All
>
> How i not reply a broadcast request in my netbsd box ?
>
>
> FreeBSD:
> sysctl -w net.inet.icmp.bmcastecho=0
I suspect this should be net.inet.icmp.maskrepl but it doesn't seem to work
in -current.
Anyway, your router should filter this; it's not really the job of hosts
(or you may want to filter ICMPs to multicast addresses too :)
--
Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
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