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Subject: Stateless dropping of packets
From: Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de>
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Is it possible to drop packets, preferably using 2.4 iptables, before
the packet triggers updates of some caches (e.g. the route cache)?

On one particular host, I saw the route cache explode, despite all
packets being dropped (using a DROP rule).