From: Brent Clark <bclark@eccotours.co.za>
To: netfilter@lists.netfilter.org
Subject: REJECT --reject-with icmp-host-unreachable vs DROP
Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2006 10:47:25 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4427A69D.6010702@eccotours.co.za> (raw)
Hi all
Just something I would like to pick someones brain with.
If I use the default policy of drop, BUT at the end of the chain use the following
$IPT -t filter -A FORWARD -j REJECT --reject-with icmp-host-unreachable
Would that be ok, or does is another ICMP message I can reply back with.
Reason I ask this is because I find that by using the default policy (DROP), some applications keep retrying to make a
connection etc.
Where as this approach, seems to slow things down (I stand to correction on this).
If someone could maybe help me understand this or assit I would be most grateful.
Kind Regards
Brent Clark
next reply other threads:[~2006-03-27 8:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-03-27 8:47 Brent Clark [this message]
2006-03-27 9:21 ` REJECT --reject-with icmp-host-unreachable vs DROP Martijn Lievaart
2006-03-27 13:07 ` Menno Smits
2006-03-27 15:24 ` Nathaniel Hall
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