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Re: [FW-1] Last Rule



u should drop it because a reject will send a response the host.
>
> From: Matthias Leu <[email protected]>
> Date: 2003/10/03 Fri PM 01:22:31 EDT
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [FW-1] Last Rule
>
> Devon Harding - GTHLA wrote:
> > Should my last rule be ANY-ANY-REJECT or ANY-ANY-DROP?
> >
> Hi,
> the "classic" Clean-Up rule is to DROP and to LOG. Drop is useful
> because in case of an attack the sender doesn't get an answer from the
> Firewall. So he can't make out if the systems is up or even turned on.
> Ok, I know, in this case I'm an optimist ;-)
> Logging should be turned on, so you see the traffic beeing dropped.
> Otherwise, you could rely on the "implicit Drop-rule" which is the very
> last rule and always turned on, but without logging.
> Hope it helps,
> best regards,
> Matthias
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