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From: "Szabolcs Gyurko" <szabolcs.gyurko@tlt.hu>
Subject: Strange thing with iptables
Date: Thu, 09 Sep 2004 13:49:38 +0200
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Hi all,


I found a strange issue with the iptables. One of my friend showed me a  
rule
which looked like:

iptables -A FORWARD -s $machine/255.255.0.255 -j ACCEPT


What I was surprised on is the netmask. Is this a feature or a bug? I mean
this is quite strange netmask for me.

Thanks for any answers,

-- 
Szabolcs Gyurko