Re: Question about iptable's comments

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On 10/23/20 5:56 PM, Leroy Tennison wrote:
now I'm wondering if I can extend that to something like

You probably can.

I think I would not do that. Primarily because you are effectively adding additional processing for the sole purpose of providing a comment to the human.

I think I would be more inclined to add a note "See rule description <some-custom-rule-identifier.txt> in /etc/iptables/rules.d." or something like that.

So you still have a single rule with a concise pointer to a free form text file that you can be as verbose as you want to.

To each their own.



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