El mar, 01 de 02 de 2005 a las 09:47, Rob Sterenborg escribiÃ: > 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. What use to be advised is to use: For TCP: REJECT --reject-with tcp-reset For UDP: REJECT --reject-with icmp-port-unreachable For ICMP: DROP Regards. -- Jose Maria Lopez Hernandez Director Tecnico de bgSEC jkerouac@xxxxxxxxx bgSEC Seguridad y Consultoria de Sistemas Informaticos http://www.bgsec.com ESPAÃA The only people for me are the mad ones -- the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow Roman candles. -- Jack Kerouac, "On the Road"
