Re: How does a reject rule work?

[Phil Wood <cpw () lanl gov>]

Read RFC 792 to understand the ICMP Destination Unreachable Message.
"bahamin" not talking about ICMP ports its talking about the messages
sent by hosts using ICMP to tell the sender of something that is not
"reachable" on the recipients computer (such as a port).

One place to find the RFC:

ftp://ftp.rfc-editor.org/in-notes/rfc792.txt

On Tue, 2008-04-29 at 09:02 -0400, Todd Wease wrote:
> You're not going to get 'Destination port unreachable' with ICMP packets
> (they address no port).  Try with UDP or TCP packets and rule.
>
>
> bahamin takhtaei wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I wrote an icmp rule with "reject" action and
> > test it by echo request packets (ping), but
> > I didn't catch any "Destination port unreachable"
> > message on the test system. It seems that my
> > "reject" rule works as a "drop" rule only! Now
> > please tell me What do I to fix this problem?
> >
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Bahamin
> >
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C. Philip Wood, Int. D.                                                                     
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