Re: Respond to ping from selected hosts only

From: Madhu Nair (eloormadhu_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 11/03/04 

Date: 3 Nov 2004 11:59:06 -0800

Is this system connected directly to internet with out firewall.You
could do your request by configuring your firewall if you have one

Or by installing tcpwrapper in Solaris to restrict the traffic

Madhu

mr_peter_stevenson@hotmail.com (Pete) wrote in message news:<8cd09481.0411021439.1a6f7cf3@posting.google.com>...
> Hi All,
>
> Is is possible with solaris 9 to drop ping requests from all machines
> *except* from those with specific addresses?
>
> Is this something that can be done with a built-in system tweak, or
> would I need to use sunscreen?
>
> With remote sites to support, getting a person to check internet
> conectivity to our network with ping is handy, but obviously disabling
> ping on the internet tends to get rid of a large portion of the "great
> unwashed masses".
>
> Is this possible? Can we have our cake and eat it, too? If so, what
> flavour? And how large a slice.....
>
> TIA,
>
> P.

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