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As ever, Joesephine was displaying no obvious signs of envy.

This is what I saw in a local high street today:- Not sure if they're of Roma stock tho'.

Talking of bicycles, it's good to see you're still riding yours Softus.

My, oh my, oh my. What a palaver :cry: .

As I said, whatever you say Softus :lol: .

Whatever you say Softus :lol: .

You've got to laugh, what else can you do, pure entertainment though :lol:.

I think you've hit the nail on the head there and that's where my conversation with him on this matter will end. He obviously has no experience of the IT security industry, this is blatantly clear from his statements and the terminology he uses. I will not waste anymore of my time educating him...

Why's that then? Walls too long for you to cope with?

Yes I agree, but not from the public side. Network troubleshooting should be done from the internal LAN or via a VPN if remote support is required. Allowing ICMP requests\replies to your public IP address, from the public internet, is not standard security practice. Yes I agree with everything...

Incorrect. You appear to not understand that when I say, "Why are ICMP requests allowed to the external NIC on whatever is hosting diynot.com?", I am actually referring to the address allocated to the external NIC on the resource that is hosting diynot.com. Incorrect. My previous post said, "I...

Well yes, point taken. I can't actually stop you sending it but I can stop it at least 1 hop before its reached its destination (more probably 2 or 3 hops dependant on my topology). My border router, or my firewall or whatever filtering device/node you care to use it. Like I said, send a...

Oh yeah! :P

Yes you can. No. I'm trying to understand why they would want them to be allowed through in the first place. I can't think of a reason why anyone on the public side would need to have the ability to even send a request through. I'm not talking about hardening the actually resource hosting the...

Joe-90 and interesting subject, an oxymoron if ever I saw one. :lol:

Why are ICMP requests allowed to the external NIC on whatever is hosting diynot.com? :?

Bet that's not carbon neutral :shock: .