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From: "Ruben Cardenal" <ruben@ruben.cn>
Subject: RE: Problem using "string" support on iptables
Date: Wed, 6 Sep 2006 21:50:28 +0200
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Hi,

> iptables -I FORWARD -p tcp --dport 1863 -m string --string "someuser" -j
> DROP
> 
> And i get this error:
> 
> iptables v1.3.5: STRING match: You must specify `--algo'
> 
> Why i get that problem?

  1st of all, use the string module in the raw table. Then:

  -m string --string "your string" --algo bm

Ruben