General discard reasons

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The identifiers for the possible reasons that the data is discarded by the filter engine are as follows. These identifiers are constant values in the FWPS_GENERAL_DISCARD_REASON enumeration that is defined in Fwpstypes.h.

Discard reason identifier Discard reason description
FWPS_DISCARD_FIREWALL_POLICY An FWP_ACTION_BLOCK action was returned from a filtering decision.
FWPS_DISCARD_IPSEC Reserved.