Jean Christophe ANDRÃÂ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

>> Please do not use all-upercase chain names, use the MixedCase convention. 
>> Names such as LogDrop won't conflict with future kernel and/or userspace
>> extensions.
>
> If it's a well admited convention, may be it should be written in the
> iptables man page, near the -N option description.

Currently, it isn't, and I think it's a problem.  In particular, very
strange things happen if a name collision occurs (e.g. you don't get a
clear error message when you try to create a queue with such a name).

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