From owner-freebsd-doc Thu May 31 16:15: 0 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from venus.entic.net (venus.entic.net [63.125.62.130]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 176E437B42C for ; Thu, 31 May 2001 16:14:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from aj@entic.net) Received: (qmail 49810 invoked from network); 31 May 2001 23:14:45 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO enticetw0y55ob) (root@127.0.0.1) by 127.0.0.1 with SMTP; 31 May 2001 23:14:45 -0000 Message-ID: <022f01c0ea27$73a63370$b0a7e192@enticetw0y55ob> From: "Anil K. Jangity" To: , Subject: Re[2]: Limiting TCP RST Response Packets Date: Thu, 31 May 2001 16:14:32 -0700 Organization: Entic Services MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4522.1200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Maybe blackhole(4) should be reworded to something like this: From: this as a "Connection reset by peer". By turning the TCP black hole MIB on to a numeric value of one, the incoming SYN segment is merely dropped, and no RST is sent, making the system appear as a blackhole. To: this as a "Connection reset by peer". By turning the TCP black hole MIB on to a numeric value of one, the incoming SYN segment arriving on a closed port is dropped, and no RST is sent, making the system appear as a blackhole. Thats what I think its trying to say... Anil To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message