# iptables -L allow-icmp-traffic

Chain allow-icmp-traffic (2 references)
target     prot opt source               destination
ACCEPT     icmp --  anywhere             anywhere           icmp time-exceeded
limit: avg 10/sec burst 5
ACCEPT     icmp --  anywhere             anywhere           icmp
destination-unreachable limit: avg 10/sec burst 5
ACCEPT     icmp --  anywhere             anywhere           icmp source-quench
limit: avg 10/sec burst 5
ACCEPT     icmp --  anywhere             anywhere           icmp echo-request
limit: avg 5/sec burst 5
ACCEPT     icmp --  anywhere             anywhere           icmp echo-reply
limit: avg 5/sec burst 5
LOG        icmp --  anywhere             anywhere           LOG level warning
prefix `Bad ICMP traffic:'
REJECT     icmp --  anywhere             anywhere

Something like this?

Troy
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Ryan Voots wrote:
> On Thu, 8 Jan 2004 16:17:49 +0100 "Oliver Schad" <o.schad@...>  Add to
> Address Book wrote:
> 
>> Probably you think ICMP is dangerous too. There are a lot of brain dead 
>> admins who blocks ICMP packets and they wonder why connections to some 
>> websites are broken or if they administrate the packet filter before a 
>> webserver they wonder why some user grouches they wouldn't get a connection
>> to the web server.
> 
> 
> thats one reason i don't block it, some services and things use it to look
> for hosts that are up, what i wish i could do is some type of limit where it
> would only send replies to them at a certain rate, just so that a ping -f on
> 12 machines to my machine wouldn't cause a huge bandwidth surge from my
> machine.
> 
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