On Fri, Sep 16, 2016 at 06:50:22PM +0200, Christophe Leroy wrote: > Hi > > I tried to limit ping flooding by setting the following rule: > > nft add rule filter input icmp type echo-request limit rate 10/second accept This is matching packets under the rate, so packets under the rate are accepted. Your next rule, or default policy, should drop, so packets over the rate are dropped. You can invert this logic via: # nft add rule filter input icmp type echo-request limit rate over 10/second drop Does this work for you? Thanks. -- 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