netdev - Re: [RFC PATCH] network: return errors if we know tcp

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Date:	Fri, 12 Nov 2010 13:18:17 -0800 (PST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	equinox@...c24.net
Cc:	kaber@...sh.net, eric.dumazet@...il.com, eparis@...hat.com,
	hzhong@...il.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, kuznet@....inr.ac.ru,
	pekkas@...core.fi, jmorris@...ei.org, yoshfuji@...ux-ipv6.org,
	paul.moore@...com
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] network: return errors if we know tcp_connect
 failed

From: David Lamparter <equinox@...c24.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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