
April 9, 2004
3:19 p.m.
Frank Sweetser <fs@WPI.EDU> writes:
How about the fact that if you don't, you're open to acting as an unwitting participant in a smurf/fraggle amplification DoS?
I suppose, if you don't enable things like the rp_filter (or equivalent with iptables) and echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/icmp_echo_ignore_broadcasts I doubt anyone keeps udp echo enabled these days. -- Josh Huber