Stateless dropping of packets

Florian Weimer (fw@deneb.enyo.de)
Tue, 01 Apr 2003 22:54:34 +0200

Is it possible to drop packets, preferably using 2.4 iptables, before
the packet triggers updates of some caches (e.g. the route cache)?

On one particular host, I saw the route cache explode, despite all
packets being dropped (using a DROP rule).
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