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Is there a way to effectively turn off PING on your linux machine?

I am running Linux Slackware 2.0.30, how can you go about turning
these ping thingies off? :)

Another thing, is there a way to see who is trying to ping you? 
Obviously if someone is spoofing a ping attack, you cannot find out
who they are in a hurry.

On another note, what is the latested distribution for Slackware? IS
there any advantage in going for red hat/other?

 I am currently running on a 386SX25 with 8mb of ram. My machine has
been quite happily steaming along for 53 days now.. The windows 95
machines on the network, another story!!! The best I have got out of a
windows 95 PC is 25 days before it's unusable!

I'm probably looking to upgrade my linux machine in the future, but at
the moment it does everything I need.

Thanks :)