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From: "Gilad Benjamini" <gilad.benjamini@gmail.com>
Subject: Empty Target
Date: Fri, 6 Feb 2009 14:05:40 -0800
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I am trying to troubleshoot an iptables rule set, trying to understand where
different packets are going. I have found that using "iptables -L -v" is a
useful tool, with the counters telling me what's going on.
To "trigger" counters I currently use LOG rules. I would actually prefer
some sort of empty rule; a rule that would do nothing beyond increasing the
counters.

Does something like that exist ?
Seems trivial to implement.