From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Martin Josefsson Subject: Re: Strange thing with iptables Date: Thu, 09 Sep 2004 14:18:15 +0200 Sender: netfilter-devel-bounces@lists.netfilter.org Message-ID: <1094732295.8900.7.camel@localhost.localdomain> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-xOi2ecClLJpQVhWy6R1Q" Cc: netfilter-devel@lists.netfilter.org Return-path: To: Szabolcs Gyurko In-Reply-To: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: netfilter-devel-bounces@lists.netfilter.org List-Id: netfilter-devel.vger.kernel.org --=-xOi2ecClLJpQVhWy6R1Q Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, 2004-09-09 at 13:49, Szabolcs Gyurko wrote: > Hi all, >=20 >=20 > I found a strange issue with the iptables. One of my friend showed me a =20 > rule > which looked like: >=20 > iptables -A FORWARD -s $machine/255.255.0.255 -j ACCEPT >=20 >=20 > What I was surprised on is the netmask. Is this a feature or a bug? I mea= n > 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... --=20 /Martin --=-xOi2ecClLJpQVhWy6R1Q Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.5 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQBBQEoHWm2vlfa207ERAuTDAJ4zff/ZTtm2szEayXHNSKQzmNh2hgCfcZSr IMweacJhF0NNYhn4/xL2zDY= =MoSo -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-xOi2ecClLJpQVhWy6R1Q--