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From: Pablo Neira <pablo@eurodev.net>
Subject: Re: sparc64 match module - bug id 94
Date: Thu, 06 May 2004 16:39:40 +0200
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Hi Chris,

Chris Wilson wrote:

>>Please, if I'm missing something, kill me softly. Is there anything 
>>wrong in fixing up the problem with the following patch?
>>    
>>
>
>Yes, unfortunately. The rate limit is supposed to be per-rule, not global. 
>If you do this then you can't really use more than one limit rule 
>in your ruleset, or you will get very unpredictable results (and very 
>different from the current behaviour).
>  
>

Oh, sure, I missed that. It's not so easy to fix up.

thanks!
Pablo