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...-------------- Variable definition - # # Set the location of ipchains. IPCHAINS="/sbin/ipchains" IFCONFIG="/sbin/ifconfig" # You shouldn''t need to change anything in the rest of this section EXTERNIP=`$IFCONFIG $EXTERNIF | grep inet | cut -d : -f 2 | cut -d \ -f 1` EXTERNMASK=`$IFCONFIG $EXTERNIF | grep Mask | cut -d : -f 4` EXTERNNET="$EXTERNIP/$EXTERNMASK" echo "Extern NET: $EXTERNNET" INTERNIP=`$IFCONFIG $INTERNIF | grep inet | cut -d : -f 2 | cut -d \ -f 1` INTERNMASK=`$IFCONFIG $INTERNIF | grep Mask | cut -d : -f 4` INTERNNET="$INTERNIP/...

After the recent attacks on the major servers on the web my ISP has decided to stop all ICMP messages from his ISP. I have red the RFCs and it seems that he cant do that... As a result pings and traceroutes will not work. I need a friendly person out there to tell me a way to break the news to him that he has to allow ICMP packets through his network... any suggestions would be helpfull [mod: