Ruleset creation process.

[Henrik Nordstrom]

On Sat, 2 Oct 2004, Padam J Singh wrote:

> Is there are document that specifies the ruleset creation process?

What part of the ruleset creation process?

> I recently had an issue with destroy being called for old rules when adding a 
> new rule for the same target.

Destroy of what, where?

If you refer to the match/target destroy functions being called then this 
is by design of iptables. Each modification to an iptable results in a 
new table being installed in the kernel and the old deleted.

Regards
Henrik