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* iptables-save dump option
@ 2004-08-17 20:42 Herve Eychenne
  2004-08-19 10:14 ` Harald Welte
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread
From: Herve Eychenne @ 2004-08-17 20:42 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Netfilter Development

 Hi,

Can someone tell me (Harald ?) what is the interest of the -d (--dump)
option in iptables-save? I don't see it, as it does the same as
iptables-save without any arguments... (and it is undocumented in the
manpage)

 Herve

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* Re: iptables-save dump option
  2004-08-17 20:42 iptables-save dump option Herve Eychenne
@ 2004-08-19 10:14 ` Harald Welte
  2004-08-19 10:18   ` Herve Eychenne
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread
From: Harald Welte @ 2004-08-19 10:14 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Herve Eychenne; +Cc: Netfilter Development

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On Tue, Aug 17, 2004 at 10:42:56PM +0200, Herve Eychenne wrote:
>  Hi,
> 
> Can someone tell me (Harald ?) what is the interest of the -d (--dump)
> option in iptables-save? I don't see it, as it does the same as
> iptables-save without any arguments... (and it is undocumented in the
> manpage)

The initial idea was to make a binary dump instead of the ASCII parsed
save file format.  This was never implemented though (and I don't think
it's worth adding it anymore).

>  Herve

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* Re: iptables-save dump option
  2004-08-19 10:14 ` Harald Welte
@ 2004-08-19 10:18   ` Herve Eychenne
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: Herve Eychenne @ 2004-08-19 10:18 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Harald Welte, Netfilter Development

On Thu, Aug 19, 2004 at 12:14:22PM +0200, Harald Welte wrote:

> On Tue, Aug 17, 2004 at 10:42:56PM +0200, Herve Eychenne wrote:
> >  Hi,
> > 
> > Can someone tell me (Harald ?) what is the interest of the -d (--dump)
> > option in iptables-save? I don't see it, as it does the same as
> > iptables-save without any arguments... (and it is undocumented in the
> > manpage)

> The initial idea was to make a binary dump instead of the ASCII parsed
> save file format.  This was never implemented though (and I don't think
> it's worth adding it anymore).

There is already a "--binary" option (not implemented, indeed) for
that... So my question remains...

 Herve

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(°=  Hervé Eychenne
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