Skip site navigation (1)Skip section navigation (2)
Date:      Tue, 6 May 1997 21:41:51 +1000 (EST)
From:      "Daniel O'Callaghan" <danny@panda.hilink.com.au>
To:        Mikael Karpberg <karpen@ocean.campus.luth.se>
Cc:        hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: divert still broken?
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.91.970506214031.4479p-100000@panda.hilink.com.au>
In-Reply-To: <199705061037.MAA26007@ocean.campus.luth.se>

next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help


On Tue, 6 May 1997, Mikael Karpberg wrote:

> That doesn't mean that drop isn't a better keyword, and should be made an
> alias for deny. Although, if it wasn't for backwards compability (which we
> should keep, IMHO) then it would be better with:
> 
> drop      : be silent
> deny      : send RST
> reject    : send ICMP !H
> netreject : send ICMP !N
> 
> But... that's not gonna happen, because we want backwards compability,
> so just forget I said it... :-)

*laugh* I see what you are saying and No, I don't think we can rearrange 
the keywords that much.  deny/reject/netreject/resest will be it, I think.

Danny



Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?Pine.BSF.3.91.970506214031.4479p-100000>