full-disclosure - ICMP (was: daily internet traffic report)

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Message-ID: <1098080045.4242.12.camel@anduril.intranet.cartel-securite.net>
From: blancher at cartel-securite.fr (Cedric Blancher)
Subject: ICMP (was: daily internet traffic report)

Le lun 18/10/2004 ? 00:35, James Edwards a ?crit :
> That is great till you want to run a server behind that firewall.

I don't see the reason why it would cause a problem, as firewall is able
to spot ICMP related to server's IP connections as well...

> The bigger picture, to me, is you gain little in security by blocking
> ICMP.

I agree there's a lot to do before bothering with ICMP errors filtering
:)


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