Hi Pablo,
It verifies at command line parsing that given type is "filter", "nat", >or "route".The kernel will just bail out if we pass an invalid chain type.
Sure, however I thought it would be nice to avoid one useless kernel call. (and the error is still possible to locate at that point)
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