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From: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Subject: Re: [iptables 1.3.0 / libiptc patch] sort chains by hooknum/names
Date: Fri, 04 Mar 2005 23:38:23 +0100
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Phil Oester wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 04, 2005 at 09:21:14PM +0100, Olaf Rempel wrote:
>>
>>I've created two patches to revert it to the "old" behavior:
>>first buildin chains, sorted by hooknum, than userdefined chains, sorted by name.
> 
> Why is the old behaviour better than the current?  Any scripts you have
> should be smart enough to check for '^Chain ______' to determine chain.

Unfortunately not all are, so best chance of no breakage is keeping the
old behaviour. I can't remember where, but someone already reported a
broken script because of this change.

Regards
Patrick