Re: icmp pass rules

[Frank Knobbe <frank () knobbe us>]

On Fri, 2008-10-24 at 09:14 -0400, Stephen Reese wrote:
> The real question is why do pass rules even exist if you could use
> suppression instead and not have the performance penalty.

Because you can be way more specific with pass rules (icode, dsize,
content, etc) whereas with suppressions, you can only filter by *one* IP
address and SID.

-Frank

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