David S. Miller wrote: > Damn, wait, Patrick, I think I know what's happening. The iptables > IPT_* verdicts are dependant upon the NF_* values, and they don't > cope with Bart's changes I bet. Can you figure out what the exact > error would be? This kind of issue would explain the looping inside > of ipt_do_table(), wouldn't it? You're right, good catch. IPT_RETURN is interpreted internally by ip_tables, but since the value changed it isn't recognized by ip_tables anymore and returned to nf_iterate() as NF_REPEAT. This patch restores the old value.