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From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Herv=E9?= Eychenne <rv@wallfire.org>
Subject: Re: Strange misunderstandings
Date: Fri, 31 May 2002 23:17:22 +0200
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To: Sascha Reissner <sascha.reissner@toxicnet.de>
Cc: jjones@merlintechnologies.com, 'Iptables' <netfilter@lists.samba.org>

On Fri, May 31, 2002 at 11:11:15PM +0200, Sascha Reissner wrote:

> > Two issues, first issue is a simple question:
> >
> > [root] iptables -h
> > ...
> >   --check   -C chain            Test this packet on chain
> > ...
> >
> > [root] iptables --check
> > iptables v1.2.6a: Unknown arg `--check'
> >
> > What's up with that?  The help screen shows me it is a command, but it
> > doesn't exist?  Is this an optional kernel compilation thing that is
> > missing, or has it been removed from the distro?

> if you try it with iptables -C it will work.. and result in.. tataaaa
>=20
> "iptables: Will be implemented real soon.  I promise ;)" so it aint in
> there yet.

No, it never will. Man page and tool have recently be updated about
this in the CVS tree.
And I can promise you that. ;-)

 RV

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