On Fri, 1 Sep 2000, Vincent Huang wrote:
## 1). in setting up packet filtering rule, user can define if he
## want to accept, deny or drop it. what is the difference between
## DENY and DROP , one sale from IBM asked me "did DROP packet mean
## firewall just don't log it ?"
I'm not sure what DROP is, but maybe its the same as REJECT and from the
IP-CHAINS manpage, REJECT is a more "polite" way of denying the packet,
and an ICMP message is sent back to the user that the packet was
REJECTed...
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