limit extension

[Michael Schachtebeck <schachti@rbw.goe.net>]

Hi,

I'm trying to redirect some people on my router once a day to a local
apache to show them a status page.

I'm using the following iptables rule to redirect them:

/sbin/iptables -t nat -I PREROUTING -p tcp -s $IP -i $LAN_DEV --sport
1024: --dport 80 --syn -m limit --limit 1/d --limit-burst 1 -j REDIRECT
--to-port 5000

At first, I thought everything was fine: I got redirected when trying to
open the first page in my browser, and after that, I could surf normally
without being redirect. But after about 30 minutes, I got redirected
again, and iptables -t nat -vnL PREROUTING said that the rule had
matched twice.

What am I doing wrong? Why was I redirect a second time? In my opinion,
the second redirection should not have happened then, but 1 day (24
hours) later...

Any hint is welcome...

Michael.
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