> > to learn to live with it. But the fact of the matter is that adding
> > something functionally equivalent to "--reject-with RST" should be
> > relatively easy to implement. In fact, Rusty said it was once implemented
> > but he allowed it fall into disrepair and be removed because there was no
> > interest at the time in using it. Well obviously there now *is* some
> > interest in using such a feature. Therefore, *forcing* us to implement
That would also be the last missing link in the technique presented at
<URL:http://sites.inka.de/~bigred/misc/dod.html> for managing
dial-on-demand connections. With a firewall rule generating RST, it
would be trivially easy to automatically kill off TCP connections
lingering on closed dial-up ports.
So definitely there is demand for it.
Olaf
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