Pablo Neira Ayuso <pa...@netfilter.org> wrote: > On Tue, Jul 05, 2016 at 09:35:34AM +0200, Florian Westphal wrote: > > Allow users to use a simpler way to specify probalistic matching, e. g.: > > > > meta probability 0.5 (match approx. every 2nd packet) > > meta probability 0.001 (match approx. once every 1000 packets) > > > > nft list will still show > > meta random <= 2147483647 > > meta random <= 4294967 > > I don't like this asymmetry.
Its changed in patch #3 when adding the shorthand reverse translation. > What is the usecase for 'meta random' out of this probability case that > maps to what xt_statistics offers? Nothing, but the meta random might be interesting to e.g. set random (ct)mark for load balancing purposes. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netfilter-devel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
