From 7ce312467edc270fcbd8a699efabb37ce1802b98 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "David S. Miller" Date: Mon, 3 Oct 2005 16:07:30 -0700 Subject: [IPV4]: Update icmp sysctl docs and disable broadcast ECHO/TIMESTAMP by default It's not a good idea to be smurf'able by default. The few people who need this can turn it on. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller --- Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt | 10 +++++++--- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) (limited to 'Documentation/networking') diff --git a/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt b/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt index ab65714d95fc..b433c8a27e2d 100644 --- a/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt +++ b/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt @@ -355,10 +355,14 @@ ip_dynaddr - BOOLEAN Default: 0 icmp_echo_ignore_all - BOOLEAN + If set non-zero, then the kernel will ignore all ICMP ECHO + requests sent to it. + Default: 0 + icmp_echo_ignore_broadcasts - BOOLEAN - If either is set to true, then the kernel will ignore either all - ICMP ECHO requests sent to it or just those to broadcast/multicast - addresses, respectively. + If set non-zero, then the kernel will ignore all ICMP ECHO and + TIMESTAMP requests sent to it via broadcast/multicast. + Default: 1 icmp_ratelimit - INTEGER Limit the maximal rates for sending ICMP packets whose type matches -- cgit v1.2.3