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From: "Hervé Eychenne" <rv@wallfire.org>
To: Sascha Reissner <sascha.reissner@toxicnet.de>
Cc: jjones@merlintechnologies.com, 'Iptables' <netfilter@lists.samba.org>
Subject: Re: Strange misunderstandings
Date: Fri, 31 May 2002 23:17:22 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020531211721.GA479@eychenne.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <000d01c208e7$b36ba8c0$026410ac@winxp>

On Fri, May 31, 2002 at 11:11:15PM +0200, Sascha Reissner wrote:

> > Two issues, first issue is a simple question:
> >
> > [root] iptables -h
> > ...
> >   --check   -C chain            Test this packet on chain
> > ...
> >
> > [root] iptables --check
> > iptables v1.2.6a: Unknown arg `--check'
> >
> > What's up with that?  The help screen shows me it is a command, but it
> > doesn't exist?  Is this an optional kernel compilation thing that is
> > missing, or has it been removed from the distro?

> if you try it with iptables -C it will work.. and result in.. tataaaa
> 
> "iptables: Will be implemented real soon.  I promise ;)" so it aint in
> there yet.

No, it never will. Man page and tool have recently be updated about
this in the CVS tree.
And I can promise you that. ;-)

 RV

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2002-05-31 21:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-05-31 19:11 Strange misunderstandings John Jones
2002-05-31 21:11 ` Sascha Reissner
2002-05-31 21:16   ` John Jones
2002-05-31 22:52     ` Tony Earnshaw
2002-05-31 21:17   ` Hervé Eychenne [this message]
2002-05-31 21:34 ` Adam D. Barratt
2002-06-01  0:08   ` Nick Drage
     [not found] <001b01c208e8$2b289530$6301a8c0@JJONES1>
2002-05-31 21:23 ` Sascha Reissner

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