On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 08:54:40AM +0000, Patrick McHardy wrote: > On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 09:38:11AM +0100, Pablo Neira Ayuso wrote: > > On Tue, Jan 21, 2014 at 11:45:25AM +0000, Patrick McHardy wrote: > > [...] > > > I think the semantics of "flush table" should be changed though. It should > > > kill *every* object in the table. Perhaps not the base chains, but at least > > > all rules, non base chain and also sets. > > > > I think we need to add a new flush operation with the new semantics > > and keep the old one, at least the compat layer needs a flush > > operation that leaves all chain objects intact to imitate iptables -F. > > How about: > > flush table: flushes everything, removes chains and sets This is what Arturo has been asking for his new import/export feature. > flush chains: flushes rules within all chains (iptables -F) > flush chain: flushes rules within a chain This last one also allows -F tablename. There's code for these two, so I think we only need the "massive destruction" flush mode :) -- 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
