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From: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Subject: Re: arptables - bulk/fast insert
Date: Tue, 06 Apr 2010 16:18:20 +0200
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Peter Gordon wrote:
> Is there a fast way to add rules to arptables, like ebtables-restore or
> iptables-restore?
> 
> arptables-restore is a perl script which runs arptables for each insert,
> so
> a) it is not atomic
> b) it is slow

Its certainly possible to write an atomic arptables-restore program,
but so far nobody has done it.