Peter Gordon schreef: > Thanks for the reply. > > The counters are not particularly interesting in my application, so that > isn't a problem. > > ebtables-restore replaces the rules atomically. There are two meanings > in this context to "atomic". > > a) The old ruleset is deleted, and after, the new ruleset is applied > atomically, at a single instant in time. > > or > > b) The old ruleset is deleted and replaced by the new ruleset as one > action - with no time gap between them. > > 1 the new table content is constructed 2 the pointer to the old table is replaced by a pointer to the new table 3 the old table is deleted So there's no gap of time in which there is no table ruleset present. cheers, Bart -- Bart De Schuymer www.artinalgorithms.be -- 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
