On Fri, 21 Jun 2002, Patrick Schaaf wrote: > > The built-in chain and target names are all fully capitalized. > > What about the simple restriction that user-defined chain name cannot be a > > string consisting of capitalized letters only. > > This is again breaking backwards compatibility. For example, most of my > rulesets contain two chains, named "RD" and "LRD". The first does the > "REJECT with limit, then DROP" stance, and the second puts a "LOG with > limit" in front of that. As both chains are "designed" to be used with > the same ease as REJECT or DROP, the "ALL CAPS" naming makes eminent > sense to me.
Yes, it'd break backward compatibility as well. I see the reasoning for all capitals in user defined chains as well. What about simply returning by an error code if there is an attempt to create a chain wich clashes with a target name? Regards, Jozsef - E-mail : [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] WWW-Home: http://www.kfki.hu/~kadlec Address : KFKI Research Institute for Particle and Nuclear Physics H-1525 Budapest 114, POB. 49, Hungary
