Re: [FW1] how does FW-1 drop a connection?

["Tim Holman" <tim_holman@FW1-NOSPAMhotmail.com>]

It will route the packet to 127.0.0.1, blackholing it, in effect, so nothing
goes back to the source.
RST is used to Reject connections.
FIN is used to end normal connections.

----- Original Message -----
From: Karim K Ismail/Toronto/IBM <karimi@ca.ibm.com>
To: <fw-1-mailinglist@beethoven.us.checkpoint.com>
Sent: 09 April 2001 17:39
Subject: [FW1] how does FW-1 drop a connection?


>
>
> Greetings,
>
> Wondering if someone could shed some light on this.
>
> Does FW-1 send a RST or FIN to drop a connection from the connections
> table?   Or does it just time the session out?
>
> rgds,
>
>
> -karim i.
> Internet: karimi@ca.ibm.com
>
>
>
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