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From: Ralf Spenneberg <lists@spenneberg.org>
Subject: Re: Maximum Number of Chains
Date: 02 Sep 2003 22:22:16 +0200
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To: Paul Caritj <pcaritj@freespace-networks.net>
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Am Sam, 2003-08-30 um 06.16 schrieb Paul Caritj:
> Greetings, I hope everyone is well.
> Though I suspect the subject line adequately conveys my question, I will=20
> restate it: Does anyone out there know the maximum number of chains per=20
> table?
Well, I just created 1000 and it still worked.
for i in `seq 1 1000`; do iptables -N chain$i; done

How many do you need?

Cheers,

Ralf
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