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Incoming TCP packets from remote clients will have the SYN flag set in the first packet received as part of the three-way connection establishment handshake. The first connection request will have the SYN flag set, but not the ACK flag.
Every TCP packet received from a remote server will have the ACK flag set.Your local client firewall rules will require all incoming packets from remote servers to have the ACK flag set.
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When a packet is rejected, the packet is thrown away and an ICMP error
message is returned to the sender. When a packet is dropped, the
packet is simply thrown away without any notification to the sender.