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From: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
To: NICOLAS BOULIANE <nicboul@gmail.com>
Cc: Netfilter Development Mailinglist <netfilter-devel@lists.netfilter.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] libipt_statistic
Date: Mon, 02 Jul 2007 16:58:28 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <46891294.9030405@trash.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <dd45289d0707020751j6bb5de27k25bc73e4337c818b@mail.gmail.com>

[Don't remove CCs please]

NICOLAS BOULIANE wrote:
> Hi Patrick,
> 
> First, there's no upper bound check to ensure that `--packet` value is n-1,
> so I'm confused.
> 
> if (string_to_number(optarg, 0, 0xFFFFFFFF,
>                         &info->u.nth.packet) == -1)


Yes, that should be fixed.

> 
> But even if I do:
>   --every 4 --packet 2
> The first time it will match the 3th packet
> and all next time it will match the 4th packet, which I dont
> understand why (technically yes, but philosophically not).
> 
> Matching pattern look like:
> 1,2,(3),4,5,6,(7),8,9,10,(11),12,13,14,(15)


It starts at zero and goes up to n - 1. So for the second
packet you would actually use --packet 1. A bit
counterintuitive, I agree, but too late to change.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2007-07-02 14:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-07-02  0:10 [PATCH] libipt_statistic NICOLAS BOULIANE
2007-07-02 13:11 ` Patrick McHardy
     [not found]   ` <dd45289d0707020751j6bb5de27k25bc73e4337c818b@mail.gmail.com>
2007-07-02 14:58     ` Patrick McHardy [this message]
2007-07-02 15:02       ` Patrick McHardy
2007-07-02 17:38       ` NICOLAS BOULIANE
2007-07-02 17:40         ` Patrick McHardy
2007-07-02 18:05           ` NICOLAS BOULIANE
2007-07-02 18:16             ` Patrick McHardy
2007-07-02 19:10               ` NICOLAS BOULIANE
2007-07-02 19:14                 ` Patrick McHardy
2007-07-02 19:38                   ` NICOLAS BOULIANE
2007-07-02 19:55                     ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-07-02 20:09                       ` NICOLAS BOULIANE
2007-07-03 11:46                         ` Patrick McHardy
2007-07-03 11:45                     ` Patrick McHardy

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