From: Jonh Wendell <jonh.wendell@gmail.com>
To: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@inai.de>
Cc: netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] iptables-save: add --chain argument, limits output to a chain
Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2013 20:30:01 -0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CABXqP=jsFJKvfb4QaFuN2jAshUn-ECpZ2FA6KLBYOencYTnXyQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LNX.2.01.1302262317240.13412@nerf07.vanv.qr>
2013/2/26 Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@inai.de>:
>
> On Tuesday 2013-02-26 17:18, Jonh Wendell wrote:
>>
>>My particular use case is: I want to flush all iptables rules except
>>those ones from a specific chain.
>>So, I save them with iptables-save -C <chain-name>, flush, and then
>>run iptables-restore on them.
>
> But if chain-name is not a base chain, then you wipe out the
> main rules for all practical purposes.
actually, after flush all rules, I load a preset set of rules and only
then I run iptables-restore.
--
Jonh Wendell
http://www.bani.com.br
prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-02-26 23:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-02-26 11:33 [PATCH] iptables-save: add --chain argument, limits output to a chain jonh.wendell
2013-02-26 14:48 ` Jan Engelhardt
2013-02-26 15:02 ` Jonh Wendell
[not found] ` <CABXqP=jq3rEE6b1xpgA0QtuwAQ04U5b3voMdTsuGmLB-qrsDxg@mail.gmail.com>
2013-02-26 15:40 ` Jan Engelhardt
2013-02-26 16:18 ` Jonh Wendell
2013-02-26 22:18 ` Jan Engelhardt
2013-02-26 23:30 ` Jonh Wendell [this message]
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