RE: diffrence between reject & drop ?

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netfilter-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> What is the basic diffrence between rejecting a packet & droping a
> packet ? 
> 
> both denies the packet right ?

Yes, but REJECT notifies the sender that the packet was not accepted,
DROP silently discards the packet.


Gr,
Rob



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