Date: Fri, 12 Nov 2010 13:18:17 -0800 (PST)
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Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] network: return errors if we know tcp_connect
 failed
From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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From: David Lamparter <equinox@diac24.net>
Date: Fri, 12 Nov 2010 22:16:27 +0100

> As food for thought I'd like to pose the following rule:
> iptables -A OUTPUT -m statistic --mode nth --every 5 -j DROP
> which should, to my understanding, still allow the connect to complete,
> even if the first SYN got (silently!...) dropped.

Yes, I agree and this is pretty much the point I tried to make
earlier.
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