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From: Antony Stone <Antony@Soft-Solutions.co.uk>
Subject: Re: TCP delay, solved
Date: Fri, 14 Jun 2002 10:18:57 +0100
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On Friday 14 June 2002 9:25 am, David Luyer wrote:

> > Easy solution:
> >
> >   deny (connection reset) rather than drop the connections
>
> I meant reject.  From the man page:
>
> Why connection reset?  For idiots at the other end who firewall all
> ICMP.

Same problem.   Leaves me with a port on my Firewall which responds to nmap 
etc.   All other ports on my Firewall return nothing, so the machine is 
invisible - I don't want port 113 standing out by doing something different.

 

Antony.