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From: Michael <micolous@gmail.com>
To: netfilter@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: PREROUTING table and quota
Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2008 12:41:31 +1030	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1226628691.3932.5.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <491C5FCE.9060001@plouf.fr.eu.org>

Hi,

On Thu, 2008-11-13 at 18:11 +0100, Pascal Hambourg wrote:
> Michael a écrit :
> > I'm having some issues using the quota module in the PREROUTING table.
> 
> There is no such table. Do you mean the PREROUTING _chain_ in the 'nat' 
> table ?

Yes.

> > As far as I can tell, not all packets are actually hitting my quota
> > rules.  Instead only new connections seem to be managed correctly -
> > subsequent and return packets are unaffected, and thus uncounted.
> 
> This looks like the normal behaviour of the 'nat' table.

Okay.  Thanks for the clarification.

So I will have to implement some rules in the filter table.  As far as I
can tell, though, the only way to share a quota counter between rules in
the nat table and filter table is to implement it in userspace.  Is this
correct?

Thanks,


--michael


  reply	other threads:[~2008-11-14  2:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-11-13 12:15 PREROUTING table and quota Michael
2008-11-13 17:11 ` Pascal Hambourg
2008-11-14  2:11   ` Michael [this message]
2008-11-14 10:15     ` Pascal Hambourg
2008-11-15  2:06   ` Alternate routing table and source IP address question bsilva
2008-11-15 11:57     ` Pascal Hambourg

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