From owner-freebsd-current Mon Aug 16 23:48:24 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (genesi.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.136.161]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DC74E15620 for ; Mon, 16 Aug 1999 23:48:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (doconnor@cain [203.38.152.97]) by cain.gsoft.com.au (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA11348; Tue, 17 Aug 1999 16:18:13 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.3 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="_=XFMail.1.3.p0.FreeBSD:990817161813:5786=_"; micalg=pgp-md5; protocol="application/pgp-signature" In-Reply-To: <199908170646.AAA36916@harmony.village.org> Date: Tue, 17 Aug 1999 16:18:13 +0930 (CST) From: "Daniel O'Connor" To: Warner Losh Subject: Re: Dropping connections without RST Cc: ('current@freebsd.org') Cc: ('current@freebsd.org') , (Geoff Rehmet) , (Brian W. Buchanan) , Archie Cobbs Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG This message is in MIME format --_=XFMail.1.3.p0.FreeBSD:990817161813:5786=_ Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii On 17-Aug-99 Warner Losh wrote: > : Not that easily.. how are you going to make ipfw dynamically know > : which ports have listeners and which don't? > By filtering all RST packets? The defeats the purpose of having the computer not generate them in the first place.. Well not totally I suppose, but at least part of the advantage of dropping them completely would be that the machine wouldn't spend any time doing it at all... --- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum --_=XFMail.1.3.p0.FreeBSD:990817161813:5786=_ Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP MESSAGE----- Version: 2.6.3ia iQCVAwUBN7kFrVbYW/HEoF9pAQG76wQAmvk2sySVkjcQRqvr0tK5fdPlR8tw14xb LZAkWaeC+Ac00KBobrW+cLzCdKgMln7L3rG+S+qfhFx+651YAIGlSOYm8vraGbho YihkNg5DTY72XKLi7uieV7sJ0yJBTeym8dJKYrQDJyKEtzEgOzEHKwvwCvHHA8ay tgupwu8kAIk= =PVor -----END PGP MESSAGE----- --_=XFMail.1.3.p0.FreeBSD:990817161813:5786=_-- End of MIME message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message