It will route the packet to 127.0.0.1, blackholing it, in effect, so nothing goes back to the source. RST is used to Reject connections. FIN is used to end normal connections. ----- Original Message ----- From: Karim K Ismail/Toronto/IBM <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: 09 April 2001 17:39 Subject: [FW1] how does FW-1 drop a connection? > > > Greetings, > > Wondering if someone could shed some light on this. > > Does FW-1 send a RST or FIN to drop a connection from the connections > table? Or does it just time the session out? > > rgds, > > > -karim i. > Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > ============================================================================ ==== > To unsubscribe from this mailing list, please see the instructions at > http://www.checkpoint.com/services/mailing.html > ============================================================================ ==== > > ================================================================================ To unsubscribe from this mailing list, please see the instructions at http://www.checkpoint.com/services/mailing.html ================================================================================
