Feb 2009 -- Due to time pressures, the ongoing development of 'rope' has been suspended temporarily.

IpTables Rope Scripting Language - EReadOnlyRegister Error

This error means that the script has attempted to change the value of a register that is read-only (ie: cannot be changed). Examples of this type of register include those that contain values from the packet being inspected, such as $ip_saddr (etc).

For example, the following script will raise this error..

 192.168.19.89 $ip_saddr put