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From: Simion Onea <simionea@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: state ESTABLISHED, RELATED
Date: Thu, 16 Jul 2009 11:54:57 +0300
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On Thu, 2009-07-16 at 09:21 +0100, Richard Horton wrote:
> As a thought could you add those to a custom tables, say for the sake
> of example shared:
> 
> iptables -N shared
> iptables -A shared <whatever>
> 
> then in the input chain and forward chains make the first rule a jump to shared.
> 
> This makes it easier to manage the 'common' rule set as you only need
> to change it at a single point rather than having to remember to
> change both occurances...

Yes, I agree.