On Mon, 2003-06-30 at 11:36, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > You may (or may not) want to try rejecting the packets rather than > dropping them. > > On the downside, it lets them know your machine is there. (Dropping them > illicits no response as if your machine wasn't even connected even though > routers point to it.) > > On the upside, it lets them know your machine is there and isn't accepting > the packets, so hopefully/maybe they'll stop annoying you.. > > My personal preference is to reject packets rather than drop and I wonder > what others thoughts and stance on this is...
I would be interested in hearing opinions. I have everything possible set to "drop" - influenced by the scan sites such as GRC and Sygate. They seem to imply that dropping is better than rejecting. Bering defaults had everything dropped except for the IDENT port. Cheers, Alan -- ------------------------------------------------------ Alan L Tyree http://www2.austlii.edu.au/~alan Tel: +61 2 4782 2670 Mobile: +61 405 084 990 Fax: +61 2 4782 7092 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
