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<body><span class="vcard"><a class="email" href="mailto:fw@strlen.de" title="Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>"> <span class="fn">Florian Westphal</span></a>
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title="NEW - manual page does not describe special icmp type of 255"
href="https://bugzilla.netfilter.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1124#c1">Comment # 1</a>
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href="https://bugzilla.netfilter.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1124">bug 1124</a>
from <span class="vcard"><a class="email" href="mailto:fw@strlen.de" title="Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>"> <span class="fn">Florian Westphal</span></a>
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<pre>(In reply to Alexis Wilke from <a href="show_bug.cgi?id=1124#c0">comment #0</a>)
<span class="quote">> which clearly says that 255 is treated specially by iptables to mean "any".
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> I think it would be a good thing to add that note to the manual page. Also
> since there is a name "any", maybe make a clear correlation between both.</span >
Not sure why this was implemented, if you want to match all icmp you can use
"-p icmp", no need for the icmp match. Am I missing anything?</pre>
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