Re: [PATCH iptables v2] man: string: document BM false negatives

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On Sunday 2023-06-11 13:34, Jeremy Sowden wrote:

> iptables \-p udp \-\-dport 53 \-m string \-\-algo bm \-\-from 40 \-\-to 57 \-\-hex\-string '|03|www|09|netfilter|03|org|00|'
>+.P
>+NB since Boyer-Moore (BM) performs searches for matches from right to left and
>+the kernel may store a packet in multiple discontiguous blocks, it's possible
>+that a match could be spread over multiple blocks, in which case this algorithm
>+won't find it.

It was better when it just said "Note" instead of NB (notebook, nota bene)



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