Is it recommended to disable the challenge ACK and Reset packets on external devices ?

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Issue

  • Firewall team has disabled the challenge ACK and/or RST packets that are coming from the RHEL machines.
  • What is the recommendation of Red Hat in regards to the above?

Environment

  • Red hat Enterprise Linux

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