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Turning Ping off
- Thread starter jwant
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Hi,
Assuming you want to stop people pinging you, use iptables (2.4 series kernels) / ipchains (2.2 series kernels) to drop the relevant packets. You just add some icmp rules something like the following :
/sbin/iptables -A INPUT -p icmp --icmp-type echo-requested -j DROP
/sbin/iptables -A OUTPUT -p icmp --icmp-type echo-reply -J DROP
or
ipchains -A input -p icmp -s any/0 8 -d any/0 -j DROP
ipchains -A output -p icmp -s any/0 0 -d any/0 -j DROP
(Type 8 icmp = Echo request; Type 0 = Echo reply)
Rgds, Iain
Assuming you want to stop people pinging you, use iptables (2.4 series kernels) / ipchains (2.2 series kernels) to drop the relevant packets. You just add some icmp rules something like the following :
/sbin/iptables -A INPUT -p icmp --icmp-type echo-requested -j DROP
/sbin/iptables -A OUTPUT -p icmp --icmp-type echo-reply -J DROP
or
ipchains -A input -p icmp -s any/0 8 -d any/0 -j DROP
ipchains -A output -p icmp -s any/0 0 -d any/0 -j DROP
(Type 8 icmp = Echo request; Type 0 = Echo reply)
Rgds, Iain
Nostradamus
Technical User
You might read you question a little more different. I therefor post this... Perhaps you just want to know how to turn the ping command off. Default it runs until you stop it.
Try ctrl+c or ctrl+break
In some Unix systems (SCO for instance), the delete button has the same affect.
When breaking the ping command you recieve statistics regarding packet loss and more.
/Sören
Try ctrl+c or ctrl+break
In some Unix systems (SCO for instance), the delete button has the same affect.
When breaking the ping command you recieve statistics regarding packet loss and more.
/Sören
Just to clarify, the 'echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/icmp_echo_ignore_all' quoted by marsd is certainly a good suggestion and is undoubtedly simplest as long as you want to block <all> interfaces on your machine. If you just want to block on a given interface you will have to use iptables/ipchains. Typically, you'd want to suppress pings from outside your lan but allow from inside, or perhaps from a nominated machine only. Also remember if you do use packet filtering that you do not want to block all icmp protocol packets - just those packet types that relate to ping.
If you meant as per Nostradamus' response you can use the syntax 'ping -c 5 127.0.0.1' where -c means number of pings. In this example ping would stop after 5 as it would on a Windows box.
Rgds
If you meant as per Nostradamus' response you can use the syntax 'ping -c 5 127.0.0.1' where -c means number of pings. In this example ping would stop after 5 as it would on a Windows box.
Rgds
You can also use a dumbping script
to supress output. This is in expect.
#!/usr/bin/expect
set timeout -1
log_user 0
proc debug_ {} {
global argv
if {[string match "debug" $argv]} {
puts "Debug enable."
exp_internal 1
} else {
puts "No debug."
}
}
proc pingit {host} {
set timeout 15
spawn ping -c4 $host
expect {
-gl "*64*" {
send_user "Host Up."
}
eof {puts "Bye."}
timeout {puts "$host, no response."}
}
}
debug
while 1 {
send_user "Target host: "
expect_user -re "(.*)\n"
set target $expect_out(1,string)
puts "Quit to end."
if {[regexp "(Q|q)uit" $target}} {
exit
} else {
continue
}
pingit $target
}
to supress output. This is in expect.
#!/usr/bin/expect
set timeout -1
log_user 0
proc debug_ {} {
global argv
if {[string match "debug" $argv]} {
puts "Debug enable."
exp_internal 1
} else {
puts "No debug."
}
}
proc pingit {host} {
set timeout 15
spawn ping -c4 $host
expect {
-gl "*64*" {
send_user "Host Up."
}
eof {puts "Bye."}
timeout {puts "$host, no response."}
}
}
debug
while 1 {
send_user "Target host: "
expect_user -re "(.*)\n"
set target $expect_out(1,string)
puts "Quit to end."
if {[regexp "(Q|q)uit" $target}} {
exit
} else {
continue
}
pingit $target
}
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