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How to block/allow ping using iptables in Ubuntu

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Karim Buzdar
Mar 14, 2019

In this article, we will explain the iptables commands that you can use in order to add a rule that tells the iptables firewall to block ping in and out of a server by controlling the ICMP requests.
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Karim Buzdar

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