On Wednesday 2015-07-15 19:30, Pablo Neira Ayuso wrote: >> The printing via iptables -S was not the problem. >> The patch is about that no AH/ESP packets were matched when using >> just "-m esp" because of the implied --espspi 0:0. > >Without your patch: > >iptables -A INPUT -p ah > ># iptables-save >... >-A INPUT -p ah -m ah --ahspi 0 That should not happen. -p implies -m only magically if one of the options is used, i.e. "-p ah" alone should never imply "-m ah". # XTABLES_LIBDIR=$PWD/extensions iptables/xtables-multi main4 -A z -p ah # XTABLES_LIBDIR=$PWD/extensions iptables/xtables-multi main4 -S z -N z -A z -p ah Second, without my patch: # XTABLES_LIBDIR=$PWD/extensions iptables/xtables-multi main4 -A z -p ah -m ah # XTABLES_LIBDIR=$PWD/extensions iptables/xtables-multi main4 -S z -A z -p ah -m ah --ahspi 0 And that was the bug: --ahspi 0 is undesired behavior for when --ahspi is never specified. Printing it differently is a separate concern one can think about, but with a separate patch. :-) -- 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