diff --git a/Shorewall/Actions/action.dropBcasts b/Shorewall/Actions/action.dropBcasts
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..8ffb34cfe
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Shorewall/Actions/action.dropBcasts
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+#
+# Shorewall -- /usr/share/shorewall/action.dropBcasts
+#
+# This program is under GPL [http://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/gpl-2.0.txt]
+#
+# (c) 2017 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.
+#
+# dropBcasts[([audit])]
+#
+###############################################################################
+
+DEFAULTS -
+
+?if passed(@1)
+    ?if @1 eq 'audit'
+	?require AUDIT_TARGET
+	Broadcast(A_DROP)
+    ?else
+	?error "Invalid argument (@1) to dropBcasts"
+    ?endif
+?else
+    Broadcast(DROP)
+?endif
+
diff --git a/Shorewall/actions.std b/Shorewall/actions.std
index 96975a2c9..cec2a7837 100644
--- a/Shorewall/actions.std
+++ b/Shorewall/actions.std
@@ -25,6 +25,7 @@ Broadcast    noinline,audit	# Handles Broadcast/Anycast
 DNSAmp				# Matches one-question recursive DNS queries
 Drop				# Default Action for DROP policy (deprecated)
 dropBcast    inline		# Silently Drop Broadcast
+dropBcasts    inline		# Silently Drop Broadcast
 dropInvalid  inline		# Drops packets in the INVALID conntrack state
 dropMcast    inline		# Silently Drop Multicast
 dropNotSyn   noinline		# Silently Drop Non-syn TCP packets
diff --git a/Shorewall6/actions.std b/Shorewall6/actions.std
index f2c00e5b6..922ee8de1 100644
--- a/Shorewall6/actions.std
+++ b/Shorewall6/actions.std
@@ -21,6 +21,7 @@ BLACKLIST    logjump,section	# Add sender to the dynamic blacklist
 Broadcast    noinline      	# Handles Broadcast/Anycast
 Drop		        	# Default Action for DROP policy (deprecated)
 dropBcast    inline		# Silently Drop Broadcast
+dropBcasts   inline		# Silently Drop Broadcast
 dropInvalid  inline		# Drops packets in the INVALID conntrack state
 dropMcast    inline		# Silently Drop Multicast
 dropNotSyn   noinline		# Silently Drop Non-syn TCP packets