Thus spoke Smelly Pooh:
> In reply to Smelly Pooh's flatulent wordings,
> > many port scanners by default even refuse to try and scan a host unless it
> > can ping it first, so incoming ICMP requests might be worth dropping aswell.
>> Sorry, that should read ICMP echo requests
>Those were replies, though (looked like it, anyway). Those shouldn't be
dropped by default, b/c this will break path MTU discovery and might lead to
droppd/dodgy connections.
s.
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