From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Phil Oester Subject: Re: [PATCH] iptables: Sort table names in ip[6]tables-save Date: Mon, 1 Jul 2013 10:01:26 -0400 Message-ID: <20130701140126.GA1957@gmail.com> References: <20130626234202.GA31099@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Cc: netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org, pablo@netfilter.org To: Maciej =?utf-8?Q?=C5=BBenczykowski?= Return-path: Received: from mail-pa0-f50.google.com ([209.85.220.50]:52192 "EHLO mail-pa0-f50.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932070Ab3GBErs (ORCPT ); Tue, 2 Jul 2013 00:47:48 -0400 Received: by mail-pa0-f50.google.com with SMTP id fb1so5849778pad.37 for ; Mon, 01 Jul 2013 21:47:48 -0700 (PDT) Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: netfilter-devel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Mon, Jul 01, 2013 at 09:43:19PM -0700, Maciej =C5=BBenczykowski wrot= e: > 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 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netfilter-dev= el" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html