From: Phil Oester <kernel@linuxace.com>
To: "Maciej Żenczykowski" <zenczykowski@gmail.com>
Cc: netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org, pablo@netfilter.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] iptables: Sort table names in ip[6]tables-save
Date: Mon, 1 Jul 2013 10:01:26 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130701140126.GA1957@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAHo-Ooy_+zw-BXRxe=nTz4C-69e54ww_GRkMuHRbWjA7247nLA@mail.gmail.com>
On Mon, Jul 01, 2013 at 09:43:19PM -0700, Maciej Żenczykowski wrote:
> I haven't looked at the patch, but I'm guessing there should be a way
> to disable this.
Why? Today the behavior is random. If you added a NAT table rule
before a FORWARD table rule, the NAT rules would be at the bottom
of the iptables-save output. You're suggesting that completely
random behavior should be the _default_? Isn't deterministic
behavior a better default?
Phil
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-07-02 4:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-06-26 23:42 [PATCH] iptables: Sort table names in ip[6]tables-save Phil Oester
2013-07-02 4:43 ` Maciej Żenczykowski
2013-07-01 14:01 ` Phil Oester [this message]
2013-07-02 21:08 ` Maciej Żenczykowski
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