Re: redhat-config-securitylevel question

[Bill Nottingham <notting redhat com>]

Pekka Pietikainen (pp ee oulu fi) said: 
> I noticed redhat-config-securitylevel got the following change, and
> was wondering about the rationale (bug 104561 seemed to be marked
> private last time I checked)
> 
> * Thu Sep 18 2003 Bill Nottingham <notting redhat com> 1.2.8-1
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> - allow ICMP in general (#104561)
> 
> I was under the impression the previous version which allowed echo and
> --state RELATED,ESTABLISHED allows all the icmp traffic that is necessary to
>  be a Good Internet Citizen (tm), but obviously there was some case
> it didn't cover :-)

The bug reprot was about 'need-to-fragment' messages, among others.

Bill