From: Martin Josefsson <gandalf@wlug.westbo.se>
To: Szabolcs Gyurko <szabolcs.gyurko@tlt.hu>
Cc: netfilter-devel@lists.netfilter.org
Subject: Re: Strange thing with iptables
Date: Thu, 09 Sep 2004 14:18:15 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1094732295.8900.7.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <opsd15s018le1n2s@mail.tlt.hu>
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On Thu, 2004-09-09 at 13:49, Szabolcs Gyurko wrote:
> Hi all,
>
>
> I found a strange issue with the iptables. One of my friend showed me a
> rule
> which looked like:
>
> iptables -A FORWARD -s $machine/255.255.0.255 -j ACCEPT
>
>
> What I was surprised on is the netmask. Is this a feature or a bug? I mean
> this is quite strange netmask for me.
It's a feature :)
It doesn't make the current code any more complicated.
And ther are actually people using it to do weird stuff...
--
/Martin
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-09-09 12:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-09-09 11:49 Strange thing with iptables Szabolcs Gyurko
2004-09-09 12:18 ` Martin Josefsson [this message]
2004-09-09 14:33 ` Alexey Toptygin
2004-09-09 14:36 ` Szabolcs Gyurko
2004-09-10 8:20 ` Jozsef Kadlecsik
2004-09-09 14:38 ` Martin Josefsson
2004-09-11 17:52 ` Willy Tarreau
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