SUMMARY: Disable Echo Reply

  Sun Managers,

  Thanks to all the folks that replied, especially Sean Quaint
  who's reply headed me in the right direction. What I did on the
  system was to set the parameter ip_respond_to_echo_broadcast to
  zero with the ndd -set command. I also added the entry into the
  /etc/rc2.d/S72inetsvc file.
  
  Command:
  ndd -set /dev/ip ip_respond_to_echo_broadcast 0
  
  This solved the problem until I replace my old Ascend Pipeline router.
  
  Thanks to:
  "Jonathan V Hays" <jhays@jtan.com>
  "Steve Armijo" <armijo@subgeni.us>
  "Arzola, Nelson" <narzola@seattleschools.org>
  Casper Dik <Casper.Dik@Sun.COM>
  Steve Maher <steve@marzconsulting.com>
  Al Hopper <al@logical-approach.com>
  "Preston, Mark" <mpreston@soe.sony.com>
  Tim Wort <tim@pobox.com>
  
  Again thanks to all,
  
  	/mdb
  	
  	
  The original problem:
  
>   Sun Managers,
>   
>   I keep getting the following on several of the systems in my 
>   network. I have commented out the echo lines in both the 
>   /etc/inet/services and in /etc/inet/inetd.conf but I can not 
>   seem to stop the DOS on my network. The below output goes on 
>   for several hours and has basically put the network at a crawl.
>   
>   The systems are running Solaris 8 and 9 different updates.
>   
>   Anyone else run into this problem, and what else can be done to
>   prevent echo replys from the systems inside the network.
>   
>   TIA,
>   
>   	/mdb
> 
> -----snoop output -----
>   www.recomp.tv -> xxx.xxx.xxx.255 UDP D=23920 S=5192 LEN=9
>   www.recomp.tv -> xxx.xxx.xxx.0 UDP D=35903 S=56090 LEN=9
>   www.recomp.tv -> xxx.xxx.xxx.255 ICMP Echo request (ID: 0 Sequence number: 
0)
>         maya -> www.recomp.tv ICMP Echo reply (ID: 0 Sequence number: 0)
>       navajo -> www.recomp.tv ICMP Echo reply (ID: 0 Sequence number: 0)
>     dosmanos -> www.recomp.tv ICMP Echo reply (ID: 0 Sequence number: 0)
>       apache -> www.recomp.tv ICMP Echo reply (ID: 0 Sequence number: 0)
>       azteca -> www.recomp.tv ICMP Echo reply (ID: 0 Sequence number: 0)
>     printsrv -> www.recomp.tv ICMP Echo reply (ID: 0 Sequence number: 0)
>        yakii -> www.recomp.tv ICMP Echo reply (ID: 0 Sequence number: 0)
>   www.recomp.tv -> xxx.xxx.xxx.0 UDP D=50403 S=35197 LEN=9
>   www.recomp.tv -> xxx.xxx.xxx.255 UDP D=52890 S=62425 LEN=9
> 

  

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Martin D. Baldenegro (RRNC)
Cwiz Resources, Inc.
Re-Thinking Knowledge
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