On date Tuesday 2007-11-06 16:25:48 +0100, Pascal Hambourg wrote: > Stefano Sabatini a écrit : >> iptables -m statistic --help >> Shouldn't it be mentioned in the iptables man page? > > Yes, it should. Patches are welcome. Here it is. Can someone forward it to the devels? >> http://ovid.rdsct.ro/log/modules/index > > I can understand the author. Changes in Netfilter/iptables may be difficult > to track, so I wrote for myself a sort of changelog. Best regards. -- Stefano Sabatini Linux user number 337176 (see http://counter.li.org)
Index: extensions/libxt_statistic.man =================================================================== --- extensions/libxt_statistic.man (revision 0) +++ extensions/libxt_statistic.man (revision 0) @@ -0,0 +1,30 @@ +This module matches packets based on some statistic condition. +It supports two distinct modes settable with the +.B --mode +option. +.TP +Supported options: +.TP +.BI "--mode " "mode" +Set the matching mode of the matching rule, supported modes are +.B random +or +.B nth. +.TP +.BI "--probability " "p" +Set the probability from 0 to 1 for a packet to be randomly +matched. It works only with the +.B random +mode. +.TP +.BI "--every " "n" +Match one packet every nth packet. It works only with the +.B nth +mode (see also the +.B --packet +option). +.TP +.BI "--packet " "p" +Set the initial counter value (0 <= p <= n-1, default 0) for the +.B nth +mode.
