Subject: Re: broadcast ping response
To: None <tech-net@NetBSD.org>
From: Herb Peyerl <hpeyerl@beer.org>
List: tech-net
Date: 01/23/2005 01:42:04
On Sat, Jan 22, 2005 at 08:04:32PM -0500, Allen Briggs wrote:
> That said, I wouldn't have a problem with having a tunable knob to
> easily disable responses to broadcast pings (I think it should
> default to traditional behavior).  I don't think anyone's proposed
> it or shown any code, though.

Pretty trivial with 'ipf'. No new code needed.

Personally, I use broadcast pings a lot, usually followed by 'arp -n -a'.