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From: "Michal Kubeček" <mkubecek@suse.cz>
To: netfilter@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: regarding limit option and logging
Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2011 10:02:16 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <201110121002.16463.mkubecek@suse.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CA+f1OFq3vGS3ZiWB3q4Xe1gDVYm=MJ6Yi96pCYjn5y9qbxZoEQ@mail.gmail.com>

On Tuesday 11 of October 2011, Adishesh M wrote:
> 
> I want to limit the number of packets logged to one packet per second
> (1/s). For this I am using below rules and it is not working.
> 
> iptables -A INPUT -d 10.255.13.157  -m limit --limit 1/sec -j NFLOG
> --nflog-group 1

What exactly does "is not working" mean? My guess is that iptables 
complains about missing --limit-burst value. If you really don't want 
more than one message per second, try 1, but for a real-world 
configuration I would suggest a bit more.

                                                         Michal Kubeèek

      reply	other threads:[~2011-10-12  8:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-10-11 16:10 regarding limit option and logging Adishesh M
2011-10-12  8:02 ` Michal Kubeček [this message]

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