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From: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Subject: Re: statistic match support in iptables snapshots
Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2006 17:38:54 +0200
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Marco Berizzi wrote:
> Patrick McHardy wrote:
> 
>> Marco Berizzi wrote:
>> > Sorry for breaking you again: is not possible
>> > having multiple counters with 'nth mode'?
>>
>> No, why is that useful? You can just use multiple matches.
> 
> 
> ok, it's clear.
> 
> Just the last question. I have tried to insert a couple of
> rules with an out of range packet number and the kernel has
> eaten them:
> 
> iptables -A FORWARD -m statistic --mode nth --every 2 --packet 0 -j ACCEPT
> iptables -A FORWARD -m statistic --mode nth --every 2 --packet 1 -j ACCEPT
> iptables -A FORWARD -m statistic --mode nth --every 2 --packet 2 -j ACCEPT
> iptables -A FORWARD -m statistic --mode nth --every 2 --packet 20 -j ACCEPT


Mhh thats more something for userspace to catch in my opinion,
I'll add a check there.