Re: why old libnet?

[Matt Kettler <mkettler () evi-inc com>]

Joshua Berry wrote:

> Probably because it has support for using reject as well as drop, alert
> and log.  The reject keyword allows you to reset the connection rather
> than just drop it.

Yeah, I was looking at the code and you are correct. I guess I
(incorrectly) assumed it somehow used the netfilter reject target to
generate the packets. Instead snort generates them itself.


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