Strange thing with iptables

[Alexey Toptygin]

On Thu, 9 Sep 2004, Martin Josefsson wrote:

>> which looked like:
>>
>> iptables -A FORWARD -s $machine/255.255.0.255 -j ACCEPT
>>
>>
>> What I was surprised on is the netmask. Is this a feature or a bug? I mean
>> this is quite strange netmask for me.
>
> It's a feature :)
> It doesn't make the current code any more complicated.
> And ther are actually people using it to do weird stuff...

Do you mean that one can use arbitrary bitmasks wherever netfilter wants a 
netmask value?
So, one might select all IPs with the LSB set with 0.0.0.1/0.0.0.1?

 			Alexey