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From: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
To: "Ramsay, Lincoln" <Lincoln.Ramsay@digi.com>
Cc: "netfilter@vger.kernel.org" <netfilter@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: cannot use != with ct status
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2020 12:04:02 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20201014100402.GA19556@salvia> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CY4PR1001MB23116E94084D4CC5610C79C2E8050@CY4PR1001MB2311.namprd10.prod.outlook.com>

On Wed, Oct 14, 2020 at 04:16:40AM +0000, Ramsay, Lincoln wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I've just confirmed that I can't make a rule that matches ct status != dnat.

ct status == dnat and ct state != dnat checks for _exact_ matching.

Then:

        ct status dnat

based on the datatype, provides a shortcut for

        ct status and dnat == dnat

For inverted matching, please use:

        ct status and dnat != dnat

  reply	other threads:[~2020-10-14 10:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-10-14  4:16 cannot use != with ct status Ramsay, Lincoln
2020-10-14 10:04 ` Pablo Neira Ayuso [this message]
2020-10-14 10:25   ` Jozsef Kadlecsik
2020-10-14 10:30     ` Pablo Neira Ayuso
2020-10-14 18:09       ` Jozsef Kadlecsik
2020-10-14 18:54         ` Pablo Neira Ayuso
2020-10-14 11:02     ` G.W. Haywood
2020-10-14 12:50       ` Pablo Neira Ayuso
2020-10-14 13:54         ` G.W. Haywood
2020-10-14 14:11           ` Pablo Neira Ayuso
2020-10-14 14:22             ` G.W. Haywood
2020-10-14 23:29   ` Ramsay, Lincoln

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