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On Thu, Nov 14, 2024 at 10:06:32PM +0000, Kerin Millar wrote:
[...]
> To my mind, there are some issues with the above.

It is hard to explain this feature in Simple English, which does not
look like a technical specification or RFC, in just a few sentences.
Even iptables manpage description is not good enough.