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On Tue, Jan 21, 2014 at 11:45:25AM +0000, Patrick McHardy wrote:
[...]
> I think the semantics of "flush table" should be changed though. It should
> kill *every* object in the table. Perhaps not the base chains, but at least
> all rules, non base chain and also sets.

I think we need to add a new flush operation with the new semantics
and keep the old one, at least the compat layer needs a flush
operation that leaves all chain objects intact to imitate iptables -F.