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Re: New package netfilter-init to experimental?



On Tue, 27 Aug 2002, Marc Haber wrote:
> machine takes seven minutes to build a new rule set. It is so slow
> because everything is implemented as shell scripts. There are plans to
> convert the significant part of code to C++ and to use iptables
> --restore to establish the rule set instead of issueing bazillions of
> iptables calls.

Well, have a look on ipmasq, it uses shell scripts, and I find it to be
"fast enough"...

Yes, your package is good enough for experimental, but it makes little sense
to upload there unless you are going to publically encourage people to use
it...

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