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franki
2002 Aug 07
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Re: [Shorewall-users] Common Rules
...there may be some similar issues with the ICMP.DEF rules
> i.e. with RELATED tracking on ICMP chains I don''t believe you need to ACCEPT
> ECHO REPLIES since they are RELATED
> to ECHO Requests.
Yes -- we probably don''t need a number of the rules dealing with ICMP.
> Frankily, I don''t understand why RELATED is an optional parameter in
> Shorewall.conf, since it is probably a much safer thing to use rather than
> allowing ALL of these packets (ICMP Echo replies for example)
> and opening other ports for things like FTP for example. That''s just...