Re: Ping

Yeah, but who believes in OopsNav, errr... OpsNag, errrr..... <VBG>

Is it shared? <EBVBG>

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R. Bruce Hoffman, Jr.
 -- IBM Certified AS/400 Professional System Administrator
 -- IBM Certified AS/400 Professional Network Administrator

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-----Original Message-----
From: Larry Bolhuis <lbolhui@ibm.net>
To: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com <MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com>
Date: Thursday, November 11, 1999 11:23 PM
Subject: Re: Ping


>Bruce,
>>
>> Offhand, I don't think that it is "turnoffable". I think it is part of
the
>> base protocol, like if TCP is up, then ping works, if TCP is broken, ping
>> don't work. There is no entry in the service table for it so it is not on
a
>> port so you could turn it off. Additionally, since all the doc says to
>> verify, ping, I would think my first statement is true.
>
>With V4R4 you can define Filter Rules on the AS/400 via OpsNav.  In there
you can
>stop PING (ICMP requests) from going In, Out or Both.  *CAUTION* Do not try
this
>on your production system until you understand Filter rules and their
behavior on
>the AS/400!!!!
>
> - Larry
>
>ps: Be carefull about getting your Network help from a DataBase guy!  ;-)
>
>pps: As someone else mentioned, the best place to do this is at your
firewall.
>
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