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> What is your goal?__________________________________
\n> a) that no client behind the magnia can ping to the outside or
\n> b) that no one ouside the DMZ can ping your magnia?
\n>
\n> If you have worries about your firewall, try this website below to
\n> scan or probe the magina box. If you use the default firewall
\n> settings you will see that everything is blocked. So it is a pretty
\n> good firewall...If you turn the firewall off and probe it, the scan
\n> software will find virtually everything that is on your box ;-)
\n>
\n> http://scan.sygate.com/probe.html
\n>
\n> Matt.
\n>
\n> --- In magnia_sg20@yahoogroups.com, mikekoelle <no_reply@y...> wrote:
\n> > playing around with adding my own firewall rules.
\n> >
\n> > I figured i might as well set up one to block ping requests, so i
\n> > made a new folder in the firewall folder and put the folowing in
\n> the
\n> > rule file:
\n> >
\n> > $IPTABLES -A INPUT -p ICMP -icmp-type echo-request -j DROP
\n> >
\n> > I enable the check box in the web admin page and it process and
\n> says
\n> > everything is fine but it doesnt seem to work.
\n> >
\n> > When i poke around in the firewall rules with webmin it seems there
\n>
\n> > are already rules to minimize a ping flood?
\n> >
\n> > So i assume since it is already set to keep from getting pinged to
\n> > death so it wont allow me to add a rule to stop pings all together?
\n> >
\n> > I was hoping to make a rule in the magnia admin webpages so i can
\n> > turn allowing pings on or off just by checking or unchecking a
\n> rules
\n> > box. Is there anyway that i can do that or am i beat unless i go
\n> > mucking around the iptables myself?
\n>
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