Re: Limiting TCP RST Response Packets

From: Liran Dahan (lirandb@netvision.net.il)
Date: 05/31/01 

From: "Liran Dahan" <lirandb@netvision.net.il>
To: <freebsd-security@freebsd.org>
Date: Thu, 31 May 2001 23:04:44 +0200

I saw blackhole(4) but i dont really understand it..?
 is it useful? And if i use firewall and filter-prohib tcp packets, then what?

>blackhole makes more sense i think. see blackhole(4)
>
>rohrbach@WM:datasink[~]19% cat /etc/sysctl.conf
>net.inet.tcp.blackhole=2
>net.inet.udp.blackhole=1
>
>/k
>
>Rob Simmons(rsimmons@wlcg.com)@2001.05.31 >14:46:09 +0000:

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