From: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
To: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@medozas.de>
Cc: Netfilter Developer Mailing List <netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Rejecting non-CIDR conformant masks?
Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2009 19:24:45 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4974C56D.7020903@trash.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LSU.2.00.0901191917001.7294@fbirervta.pbzchgretzou.qr>
Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> once again, with that lovely IRC channel that is out there, I noticed a
> software that produces odd rules, and indeed, the latest iptables
> (and ip6tables) seem to allow a match that has no equivalent CIDR
> number, such as:
>
> -A test -d 0.0.0.123/0.0.0.255
>
> It absolutely works, but if iptables is supposed to support that (is
> it?), I should be adding it to the manpage.
> Comments?
Its supposed to work, apparently people have been using masks like
/0.0.0.1 for load-balancing with better distribution than /1 :)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-01-19 18:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-01-19 18:19 Rejecting non-CIDR conformant masks? Jan Engelhardt
2009-01-19 18:24 ` Patrick McHardy [this message]
2009-01-19 22:08 ` Amos Jeffries
2009-01-19 22:24 ` Patrick McHardy
2009-01-19 22:48 ` Amos Jeffries
2009-01-20 7:12 ` Jan Engelhardt
2009-01-20 8:42 ` Jozsef Kadlecsik
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