Re: Howto match only the first connection from an IP

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> > My goal is to set-up an iptables rule that will match and DNAT the
> > first HTTP(port 80) connection from a client (IP address).
> >
> > The first connection is defined as the first established TCP session
> > from the time the iptables rule is inserted. No other TCP connection
> > should match nor should be DNAT-ed.
> >
> > Is there any easy way to do this with current Netfilter/Iptables/pom.
> 
> I can't think of a way to do this with netfilter on its own.

Well I've come to this solution, but I wonder how reliable it is

iptables -t nat -p tcp --dport 80 -s 171.68.1.1 -m quota --quota 40 \
    -j REDIRECT --to-ports 9999

This seems to match only the first connection.

Any other ideas???

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Damjan Georgievski
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