On 08/30/2012 07:47 AM, Mark van Dijk wrote:

>
> I am not sure about is why this does not seem to do anything when it's
> added to FORWARD chain.. any idea?
>

The TTL is decremented during routing. If it is zero after being 
decremented, an ICMP response is generated.

With the rule in the FORWARD chain, the TTL gets re-incremented provided 
that the ICMP wasn't generated.

-Tom
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