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authorPhil Sutter <phil@nwl.cc>2018-05-15 17:34:30 +0200
committerFlorian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>2018-05-17 15:40:59 +0200
commitfc9566ff0adaceafae5687a3e719aa9a436915d5 (patch)
treef93261d633d22400e8c8abc097b8142e3e23883d /doc/nft.xml
parentbd92c25ac3e1c173f085f4bf502bed372d281e7a (diff)
nft.8: Document limitation of reject statement in bridge family
Bridge family allows reject statement in prerouting and input chains only. Users can't know without looking at kernel code. Signed-off-by: Phil Sutter <phil@nwl.cc> Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
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@@ -4873,6 +4873,10 @@ ip6 filter output log flags all
The common default reject value is
<command>port-unreachable</command>.
</para>
+ <para>
+ Note that in bridge family, reject statement is only allowed in base chains which
+ hook into <literal>input</literal> or <literal>prerouting</literal>.
+ </para>
</refsect2>
<refsect2>
<title>Counter statement</title>