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From: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] NETFILTER: add support for invert condition
	(!)	in	ipt_limit
Date: Sun, 30 Oct 2005 16:12:20 +0100
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Sven Schuster wrote:

> I know it's been a while since netfilter/iptables has been developed,
> but why wasn't isn't the inversion built into the netfilter/iptables
> core?? Inversion can be useful for any kind of match, so why duplicate
> it in every single match?? Why not instead do a general inversion??
> If I haven't thought of something obvious please cat this post to
> /dev/null :-) (but pleas enlighten me before doing so *g*)

Yes, that would have been a better idea. Unfortunately
we can't change this now because of userspace compatiblity.