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Date: Sun, 2 Mar 2003 11:47:38 +0000
From: Bruce Cran <bruce@cran.org.uk>
To: "Remington L." <madriax@garlic.com>
Cc: questions@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: Blackholes?
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On Sun, Mar 02, 2003 at 02:08:52AM -0800, Remington L. wrote:
> I noticed that all values 1+ in sysctl net.inet.tcp(udp).blackhole= are
> valid. If 0 is off and 1 is on, what is 2+. What purpose does this
> server, I cant find documentation of this anywhwere
> 

man blackhole :-)

A value of 1 makes it drop SYN packets only, a value of 2 makes it drop
whole segments without sending an RST.

Bruce Cran

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