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From: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
To: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
Cc: netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH nft 1/3] meta: add random expression key
Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2016 21:34:21 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160718193421.GA4275@salvia> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1467704135-9154-2-git-send-email-fw@strlen.de>

On Tue, Jul 05, 2016 at 09:35:33AM +0200, Florian Westphal wrote:
> meta random fills a 32bit register with a pseudo-random number.
> 
> For instance one can now use
> 
> meta random <= 2147483647
> 
> ... to match every 2nd packet, on average.
> 
> A followup patch will add a short-hand version ('probability 0.5') so
> that users do not have to deal with details.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>

Please, apply this patch.

Acked-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>

We can later on revisit the probability scaling, so keep 2/3 and 3/3
back by now.

Thanks.

  reply	other threads:[~2016-07-18 19:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-07-05  7:35 [PATCH nft 1/3] meta: add random and probability match Florian Westphal
2016-07-05  7:35 ` [PATCH nft 1/3] meta: add random expression key Florian Westphal
2016-07-18 19:34   ` Pablo Neira Ayuso [this message]
2016-07-18 22:09     ` Florian Westphal
2016-07-05  7:35 ` [PATCH nft 2/3] meta: add short-hand mnemonic for probalistic matching Florian Westphal
2016-07-14 10:41   ` Pablo Neira Ayuso
2016-07-14 10:52     ` Florian Westphal
2016-07-14 11:32       ` Pablo Neira Ayuso
2016-07-14 12:08         ` Florian Westphal
2016-07-14 12:17           ` Pablo Neira Ayuso
2016-07-05  7:35 ` [PATCH nft 3/3] netlink_delinearize, meta: show meta prandom <= value as probability mnemonic Florian Westphal

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