"inbound and outbound" filter doesn't work? about clumsy

[jagt]

Hi Petya. Please take a look at the limitation section. If you're filtering on local packets 'inbound' and 'outbound' are kind of mutual exclusive.

[jvanegmond]

"inbound and outbound" filter will never match any packets because packets are never BOTH inbound AND outbound. What OP might mean is "inbound or outbound" which will match all packets, but I don't see the point of doing that since not filtering will do the same.

[p90user1010]

Hi Opossum,

I think you're just making a syntax mistake for what you're trying to accomplish, like I did initially. If you're looking to disrupt both inbound packets and outbound packets with Clumsy, I believe the syntax you're looking for is "inbound or outbound". Using "inbound and outbound" is telling the system to only filter packets that are simultaneously inbound and outbound, which is impossible

[basil00]

"inbound and outbound" is equivalent to "false" (i.e. nothing matches)
"inbound or outbound" is equivalent to "true" (i.e. everything matches)

In fact, "inbound" is just another way of writing "not outbound", and vice versa.

[drewnoakes]

What is the distinction between loopback, inbound and outbound? Would a loopback packet be both inbound and outbound? If that were the case, then inbound and outbound would match loopback packets, no?

[jagt]

@drewnoakes I think currently lookback count as outbound. This page has mentioned this and a few other things.