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Document the fact that the firewall allows pings by default in rl-1603.xml.

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@ -262,6 +262,18 @@ services.syncthing = {
</programlisting>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
<literal>networking.firewall.allowPing</literal> is now enabled by
default. Users are encourarged to configure an approiate rate limit for
their machines using the Kernel interface at
<filename>/proc/sys/net/ipv4/icmp_ratelimit</filename> and
<filename>/proc/sys/net/ipv6/icmp/ratelimit</filename> or using the
firewall itself, i.e. by setting the NixOS option
<literal>networking.firewall.pingLimit</literal>.
</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>