On 01.07.2011 9:14, Julian Elischer wrote:
>>    The "call" action saves the current rule number in the internal
>>    stack and rules processing continues from the first rule with
>>    specified number (similar to skipto action). If later a rule with
>>    "return" action is encountered, the processing returns to the first
>>    rule with number of "call" rule saved in the stack plus one or higher.
>>
>>    Submitted by:    Vadim Goncharov
>>    Discussed by:    ipfw@, luigi@
>>
>> Modified:
> what happens if the return target is removed in the meanwhile?

This implementation does not keep pointer to the rule, only rule number.
So return action will work like "skipto <number from the stack + 1>".
If you remove rule with call action it will search first rule with number 
greater
than it had.

-- 
WBR, Andrey V. Elsukov

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