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[IPV4]: Update icmp sysctl docs and disable broadcast ECHO/TIMESTAMP by default

It's not a good idea to be smurf'able by default.
The few people who need this can turn it on.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
David S. Miller 20 vuotta sitten
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  1. 7 3
      Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt
  2. 1 1
      net/ipv4/icmp.c

+ 7 - 3
Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt

@@ -355,10 +355,14 @@ ip_dynaddr - BOOLEAN
 	Default: 0
 
 icmp_echo_ignore_all - BOOLEAN
+	If set non-zero, then the kernel will ignore all ICMP ECHO
+	requests sent to it.
+	Default: 0
+
 icmp_echo_ignore_broadcasts - BOOLEAN
-	If either is set to true, then the kernel will ignore either all
-	ICMP ECHO requests sent to it or just those to broadcast/multicast
-	addresses, respectively.
+	If set non-zero, then the kernel will ignore all ICMP ECHO and
+	TIMESTAMP requests sent to it via broadcast/multicast.
+	Default: 1
 
 icmp_ratelimit - INTEGER
 	Limit the maximal rates for sending ICMP packets whose type matches

+ 1 - 1
net/ipv4/icmp.c

@@ -188,7 +188,7 @@ struct icmp_err icmp_err_convert[] = {
 
 /* Control parameters for ECHO replies. */
 int sysctl_icmp_echo_ignore_all;
-int sysctl_icmp_echo_ignore_broadcasts;
+int sysctl_icmp_echo_ignore_broadcasts = 1;
 
 /* Control parameter - ignore bogus broadcast responses? */
 int sysctl_icmp_ignore_bogus_error_responses;