From: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
To: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@medozas.de>
Cc: netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: ip(6)tables-save: Allow chain selection
Date: Sat, 01 Oct 2011 21:21:56 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4E876854.8080708@nod.at> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LNX.2.01.1110012107510.17567@frira.zrqbmnf.qr>
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Am 01.10.2011 21:13, schrieb Jan Engelhardt:
> On Saturday 2011-10-01 17:19, Richard Weinberger wrote:
>
>> This patch set adds a switch to iptables-save to select
>> a specific chain to be saved.
>>
>> Sometimes it's useful to save only one chain.
>> E.g. When some rules are added dynamically by daemons like
>> OpenVPN or strongSwan and the base rule set is generated by
>> a bash script.
>>
>> iptables-save -t filter -C DYN_OVPN > /tmp/dyn-rules
>
> iptables -S can already select chains and even single rules. We are
> getting to the point where things are implemented redundantly.. hm.
Hmm, good point.
Maybe it's time to drop iptables-save...
Thanks,
//richard
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Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-10-01 15:19 ip(6)tables-save: Allow chain selection Richard Weinberger
2011-10-01 15:19 ` [PATCH 1/2] iptables-save: " Richard Weinberger
2011-10-01 15:19 ` [PATCH 2/2] ip6tables-save: " Richard Weinberger
2011-10-01 19:13 ` ip(6)tables-save: " Jan Engelhardt
2011-10-01 19:21 ` Richard Weinberger [this message]
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