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From: Nuutti Kotivuori <naked@iki.fi>
Subject: Re: Per connection transfer rate matching
Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2004 20:02:44 +0200
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Ray Leach wrote:
> On Thu, 2004-02-05 at 00:31, Nuutti Kotivuori wrote:
>> The 'connbytes' match in the patch-o-matic matches on cumulative
>> transfer amounts on a per connection basis. The 'limit' match
>> matches packets on a simple token bucket implementation. Combining
>> these two to something which matches bytes on a simple token bucket
>> per connection would create the desired result.
>
> Could you not do it then by using two user defined chains, one for
> limit match and one for connbytes?

Nay. If you think about what I am wanting, it should be obvious that
it can't work.

Anyway, I cooked up a patch to do what I wanted - I posted it on the
netfilter-devel list just recently. It's still in development and very
basic, but seems to work fine.

-- Naked