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Hi, I am using iproute2 to setup fowarding, adding routes like "ip route add 192.168.1.3 via 192.168.1.2" I was wondering where in the kernel I can insert probabilistic packet loss only for forwarded packets? So that for instance I can drop 5% of all forwarded packets? I don''t need help with the actual code, just need help finding where to insert this code :) Thanks! George

...is now, seems to me to be a textbook case of massive overengineering and overkill based on outdated assumptions. One possible reply is that filesystem hardening sometimes fails. But that objection implies the right solution, which is to fix the filesystem hardening rather than messing around with compensatory kludges in userspace. At modern disk-write speeds there is plenty of time for journaling OS buffers between SIGPWR and when the heads no longer get juice. Now I'll anticipate another possible reply: even if modern OS/filesystem layers have made UPS-controlled shutdowns rather pointless, ther...

CRAN (and crantastic) updates this week New packages ------------ * allan (1.0) Alan Lee http://crantastic.org/packages/allan Automates Large Linear Analysis Model Fitting * andrews (1.0) Jaroslav Myslivec http://crantastic.org/packages/andrews Andrews curves for visualization of multidimensional data * anesrake (0.3) Josh Pasek http://crantastic.org/packages/anesrake This