Re: [PATCH}: Make MARK target terminate (resend)

[Balazs Scheidler <bazsi@balabit.hu>]

On Sat, Jun 29, 2002 at 12:36:36PM +0200, Henrik Nordstrom wrote:
> On Saturday 29 June 2002 11.46, Patrick McHardy wrote:
> So the question to the Netfilter core team is if it would be OK to add 
> a new option and "module class" to the userspace tools, and have the 
> existing IPT_CONTINUE targets dual-register as both a target and a 
> match. I can try to whip something together if this is seen as 
> something acceptable. Should be fully backwards/forward compatible 
> with existing rulesets with only a minimal amount of code 
> duplication. The only compability issue is that if you make use the 
> new feature then you cannot go back to a older userspace or kernel..

I for one would second a feature like this. I see a good number of places
where it could be used (the long standing missing -l option is one example)

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