iptables-save counters on builtin chains not restored?

[Harald Welte]

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On Tue, Aug 17, 2004 at 11:18:21PM +0200, Herve Eychenne wrote:
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> When fed with the result of iptables-save -c, iptables-restore -c
> does not seem to restore counters on chains (I'm not talking about
> rules), as I simply cannot find any parsing code for that.
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> Note that it would make sense only on builtin chains, but not
> user-chains, because only builtin chains have a policy, and the
> counters are about packets that hit the policy.
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> Anyway, it doesn't seem to be restored at all, and I suspect an
> omission, so... a bug. Can someone confirm?

Yes, now that you say it, I don't remember having written that code ;)

Please put it in bugzilla... and patches are obviously always welcome.

>  Herve

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  "Fragmentation is like classful addressing -- an interesting early
   architectural error that shows how much experimentation was going
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