problem with limit

[Michael A. Dietz]

It's a documentation issue:
should be:
iptables -A FORWARD -p icmp --icmp-type echo-request -m limit --limit 3/s
-j ACCEPT

On Tue, 11 Jul 2000, Samu wrote:

> hi there,
> i'm playing with iptable 1.1.0on a 2.4.0-test2
> 
> i tried to limit icmp echo-req to my machine and, as suggested on your HOWTO
> i used iptables -A FORWARD -p icmp --icmp-type echo-request -m limit 3/s -j ACCEPT
> 
> this give me this error 
> Bad argument `3/s'
> where's the problem ? 
> 
> thanks 
> samuele 
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