full-disclosure - reduction of brute force log

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Date: Sat Mar 11 17:42:48 2006
From: m at rtij.nl (Martijn Lievaart)
Subject: reduction of brute force log

Gary E. Miller wrote:

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>Yo Bob!
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>On Tue, 28 Feb 2006, Bob Radvanovsky wrote:
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>>I am going to test these rules out -- this looks REALLy good!  But...I'v
>>e got just ONE question: why on Earth would you permit ICMP???
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>No ICMP means no P-MTU.  No P-MTU mean non-working tunnels.
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>You want to shoot yourself in the foot, tben go ahead and block ICMP.
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All icmp messages related to pmtud are just that, RELATED. So they are 
allowed by a previous rule.

M4