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From: "Michael K" <micke@klintan.se>
Subject: Rejecting udp
Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2003 18:28:01 +0100
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I saw this rule someware on the net.
$IPTABLES -A FORWARD -o $EXTERNALIF -p udp --dport 137 -j REJECT

Whats the use to use reject on a UDP packet? Isn't udp connection-less
A more correct shouldn't that be "-j DROP"? Or am I thinking wrong here?

Regards Klintan