On Saturday 11 of April 2009, Kyle Moffett wrote: > Almost all of the standard firewall tools (such as shorewall, etc) are > already using iptables-restore command to load firewall rules, > primarily because using separate iptables commands was *already* way > too slow. Some time ago there was batch patch that allowed to use standard shell format of calling iptables but did everything at once: http://lists.netfilter.org/pipermail/netfilter-devel/2004- September/016704.html It didn't get merged - no idea why. -- Arkadiusz Miśkiewicz PLD/Linux Team arekm / maven.pl http://ftp.pld-linux.org/ -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netfilter-devel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html