Re: DROP or REJECT?

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hm.... I think sending "host unreachable" from the host which should not be 
reachable is not what you want. Alos sending "host unreachable" will increase 
your traffic (not much, but it did :) ).
But I think most "attack" tools will ignore trys to make yourself invisible.

greez
Daniel

Am Sonntag, 20. November 2005 19:33 schrieb Michael D. Berger:
> For blocking various attacks on ports 22 and 80,
> I have been using:
>    -j REJECT --reject-with icmp-host-unreachable
> To minimize future attempts, is this best, or is
> there a better idea, such as DROP?
> Thanks for your advice,
> Mike.
> --
> Michael D. Berger
> m.d.berger@xxxxxxxx


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