Bug 220780

Summary: Manpages incorrectly imply 'limit' inversion (!)
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Need Real Name <bugzilla>
Component: iptablesAssignee: Thomas Woerner <twoerner>
Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Description Need Real Name 2006-12-26 17:59:19 UTC 
Description of problem:
Manpages suggests that -m limit accepts inversion (!) but not true

Specifically:
Manpages say:
  limit
       This module matches at a limited rate using a token bucket  filter.   A
       rule  using  this  extension  will  match  until  this limit is reached
       (unless the '!' flag is used).

While iptables gives the following error message:
       Applying iptables firewall rules: iptables-restore v1.3.5: limit does not
support invert
Comment 1 Need Real Name 2007-03-28 00:31:53 UTC 
Any reason not to fix this?????
Comment 2 Thomas Woerner 2007-09-24 16:10:50 UTC 
Fixed in rawhide in package iptables-1.3.8-4 or newer.