From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Evgeniy Polyakov Subject: Re: Passive OS fingerprint xtables match (iptables part) Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2009 16:12:56 +0300 Message-ID: <20090213131256.GE23879@ioremap.net> References: <20090212171245.GA15025@ioremap.net> <20090213125215.GC23879@ioremap.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Patrick McHardy , netdev@vger.kernel.org, David Miller , "Paul E. McKenney" , Netfilter Development Mailinglist To: Jan Engelhardt Return-path: Received: from corega.com.ru ([195.178.208.66]:45353 "EHLO tservice.net.ru" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1759990AbZBMNM6 (ORCPT ); Fri, 13 Feb 2009 08:12:58 -0500 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: netfilter-devel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 02:03:10PM +0100, Jan Engelhardt (jengelh@medozas.de) wrote: > >> > printf("OS fingerprint match options:\n" > >> > "--genre [!] string Match a OS genre by passive fingerprinting.\n" > >> > >> The syntax should be [!] --genre string, that is what most > >> others use. Then the check_inverse call also be removed. > > > >Actually not, it has genre not Linux (Windows, Solaris, HPUX and so on). > > It may not coincide with English grammar, but it is easier to parse. '! --genre Linux' means this option was not specified, '--genre ! Linux' means everything but Linux. -- Evgeniy Polyakov