Kian Mohageri wrote: > For my clarification, are we talking about "stealth mode" as in > dropping everything (including pings) from untrusted hosts, or > the default block-policy (drop vs. return)?
The only time when `dropping everything' is useful is when you are under a ddos to prevent load on the machine. In any other case you are being a bad netziticen. A net scan is not worth paying attention to. And for the rest all you do is annoy decent hosts. # Han
