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Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> Right. Of course this is a problem. To that end, I can really only say
> that a divide needs to be made someday.

I totally disagree. iptables has tons of problems, I'm guessing that
a year from now we will have a successor. Breaking compatibility at
this point in its lifetime is not acceptable, especially on such a
fundamental level. I really wish people would stop wasteing time
trying to redesign iptables, its just not worth it.