diff --git a/Shorewall/action.RST b/Shorewall/action.RST
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..10a8a5d99
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Shorewall/action.RST
@@ -0,0 +1,56 @@
+#
+# Shorewall 4 - RST Action
+#
+#    /usr/share/shorewall/action.RST
+#
+#     This program is under GPL [http://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/gpl-2.0.txt]
+#
+#     (c) 2011 - Tom Eastep (teastep@shorewall.net)
+#
+#       Complete documentation is available at http://shorewall.net
+#
+#       This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
+#       it under the terms of Version 2 of the GNU General Public License
+#       as published by the Free Software Foundation.
+#
+#       This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+#       but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+#       MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
+#       GNU General Public License for more details.
+#
+#       You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+#       along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
+#       Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA.
+#
+#   RST[([<action>|-[,{audit|-}])]
+#
+#       Default action is DROP
+#
+##########################################################################################
+FORMAT 2
+
+DEFAULTS DROP,-
+
+BEGIN PERL;
+
+use Shorewall::IPAddrs;
+use Shorewall::Config;
+use Shorewall::Chains;
+
+my ( $action, $audit ) = get_action_params( 2 );
+
+fatal_error "Invalid parameter ($audit) to action NotSyn"   if supplied $audit && $audit ne 'audit';
+fatal_error "Invalid parameter ($action) to action NotSyn"  unless $action =~ /^(?:ACCEPT|DROP|REJECT)$/;
+
+my $chainref         = get_action_chain;
+my ( $level, $tag )  = get_action_logging;
+my $target           = require_audit ( $action , $audit );
+
+log_rule_limit $level, $chainref, 'RST' , $action, '', $tag, 'add', '-p 6 --tcp-flags RST RST ' if $level ne '';
+add_jump $chainref , $target, 0, '-p 6 --tcp-flags RST RST, ';
+
+allow_optimize( $chainref );
+
+1;
+
+END PERL;
diff --git a/Shorewall/actions.std b/Shorewall/actions.std
index fcb7a30ae..d0996931a 100644
--- a/Shorewall/actions.std
+++ b/Shorewall/actions.std
@@ -41,4 +41,5 @@ DropSmurfs          # Drop smurf packets
 Invalid             # Handles packets in the INVALID conntrack state
 NotSyn              # Handles TCP packets which do not have SYN=1 and ACK=0
 Reject		    # Default Action for REJECT policy
+RST		    # Handle packets with RST set
 TCPFlags            # Handle bad flag combinations.