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On 12/02/2016 08:45 AM, Brian J. Murrell wrote:
> On Wed, 2016-11-30 at 13:58 -0800, Tom Eastep wrote:
>> 
>> This is the same behavior as on Shorewall and Shorewall6. If you
>> have SAVE_IPSETS configured and you want to restore an old config
>> with the firewall running,
> 
> Is the point here to prevent overwriting the current ipsets with
> old ones?
> 

The point is that the old ipset may have a different definition (set
type and/or options). Because the set it in-use, it cannot be deleted
and re-created with the correct type and options.

This problem is solvable using the 'ipset rename' command, but the
possible failure cases are somewhat daunting to handle.

- -Tom
- -- 
Tom Eastep        \ When I die, I want to go like my Grandfather who
Shoreline,         \ died peacefully in his sleep. Not screaming like
Washington, USA     \ all of the passengers in his car
http://shorewall.net \________________________________________________
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