One reason for ILB machine to configure IP Filter may be to disallow all 
incoming packets except for those that are for load balancing and ssh. I 
dont know how common this case may be, but I am wondering if this 
capabilty can be added in ILB itself, so that the user does not  
require  IP  FIlter configuration for this purpose. We can invoke this 
via an additional lbadm option called "dedicated" or something

This wquld probably mean that at ip_input() we check to see if packet is 
ssh protocol, if its not, we match the packets dest port and protocol to 
those that show up in lb rules or else drop the packet.

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