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Re: missing iptables modules and filters in all SL distributions
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Tom H <[log in to unmask]>
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Tom H <[log in to unmask]>
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Fri, 27 Jan 2012 15:06:33 -0500
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On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 2:45 PM, Orion Poplawski <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> On 01/27/2012 10:22 AM, SCHAER Frederic wrote:
>>
>> Looking for simple round robin solutions, I tried several times today to
>> use
>> iptables functions without success.
>>
>> The cause is that some targets and some matching filters are not available
>> as
>> modules and not compiled in the kernel.
>>
>> For instance, the BALANCE target isn’t available. Too bad.
>>
>> Then, the “-nth” or“-random” parameters aren’t available neither.
>
> I think you must be coming from a very old version of iptables.

+1

For “-nth” or“-random”, take a look at "statistic" in "man iptables".

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