Re: A replacement for rp_filter with iptables (config help needed)

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>> iptables -t mangle -A PREROUTING -i ! eth1 -s
>> 2xx.xx.xxx.224/255.255.255.240 -j DROP
>
>If you support 2.6.x kernels, I'd suggest to use the raw table instead:
>thus the unnecessary load on conntrack could be avoided.
>

Why use this sort of replacement for rp_filter anyway? What's bad with 
rp_filter? (Apart from the problem with asymmetric routing, as is mentioned 
in net/ipv4/*.)



Jan Engelhardt                                                               
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