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From: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Subject: Re: Unable to add rule on Chain with 30 characters.
Date: Sat, 09 Jul 2005 03:11:24 +0200
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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