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From: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Subject: Re: iptables icmp protocol match bug.
Date: Mon, 04 Aug 2003 22:50:50 +0200
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Harald Welte wrote:

>On Thu, Jul 31, 2003 at 11:52:00PM +0200, Patrick McHardy wrote:
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>>This is deliberate. There is no valid icmp-type 255, it is used as a
>>wildcard to match every possible type. See icmp_type_code_match()
>>in ip_tables.c. Perhaps the userspace tool should warn about invalid
>>types ?
>>    
>>
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>yes, please make this a bugzilla entry so we don't forget about that.
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>

I'll do that later or just send a patch.

Bye
Patrick