From: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
To: Rafael Dreher <dreher@interage.com.br>
Cc: netfilter-devel@lists.netfilter.org
Subject: Re: Unable to add rule on Chain with 30 characters.
Date: Sat, 09 Jul 2005 03:11:24 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <42CF243C.4010405@trash.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <42CEDD9D.5020808@interage.com.br>
Rafael Dreher wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm trying do add a rule on a user-defined chain, on the NAT table, with
> exactly 30 characters.
>
> The chain have bee added without any problem, but when I add the rule,
> iptables says that it's unable do find the chain.
>
> If I reduce the chain to 28 characters, it works. I'm trying to migrate
> a set of rules form iptables-1.2.11 to 1.3.1,
> and I don't want to rewrite the rules.
The maximum name length for matches and targets (and user-defined
chains) has been reduced by one to make room for a versioning byte.
You seem to be the first unlucky person that uses all available
bytes. The only possible solution is to reduce the length of your
chain-names.
Regards
Patrick
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2005-07-08 20:10 Unable to add rule on Chain with 30 characters Rafael Dreher
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