Re: ICMP dest-unreach in SYN_* states of TCP

[Taral]

On Tue, 13 Jul 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

> How did the packet reach this firewall? Firewall (if it is not
> embedded to destination host) cannot differ packets lost in the internet
> of "administaratively obeyed" to it.
> It is pretty common case in networks of topology different of trivial.

Real firewalls are on the path from source to destination. If the packet
matched a REJECT filter rule once, it will do so again if the packet is
resent. 

Taral

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