iptables has "nth" match extension that matches every n-th packet. It is described in the man page. But why would you want to drop ACK packets? That would have negative impact on your link. Ivan. On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 12:41 PM, Kostas Pelechrinis <kpele_ntua@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi all, > > I have two nodes communicating via their wireless interfaces. Let us assume that node A sends packets to node B. Once node B is receiving the packets, he transmits the 802.11 ACK frame. What I want to do is to prevent node B from sending this ACK frames once every two packets for example. > > One indirect way I have thought about is setting the following rule to node B: > > iptables -A INPUT -i ath0 -m limit --limit _SPECIFIED-LIMIT_ -s _NODE'S A IP_ -j DROP > > However, I am not sure if this prevents the 802.11 ACKs from being transmitted. This has to do with the place where the above rule is being enforced. > > Do you have any comments or suggestions on how I can achieve what I am trying to? > > Thanks, > Kostas > > > > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netfilter" in > the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netfilter" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
