[LARTC] Drop vs. Reject

[Jorge# ./S]

with a reject u send a reject signal back to the origin. In case of a
DoS this generates more traffic.

wich one to use mainly depends how do u want to protect a port and what
kinds of attacks u expect to receive.

Jorge S.

On Wed, 2003-11-19 at 11:11, Guilherme Viebig wrote:
> Some say that DROP is the ideal manner to deal with non authorized requests,
> but using DROP let the atacker know the ports which are filtered. Using
> REJECT simply add one step to all proccess, sending the reject signal back
> to the oringin.
> 
> What your perspective about it?
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