On Saturday 11 of April 2009, Kyle Moffett wrote:

Almost all of the standard firewall tools (such as shorewall, etc) are
already using iptables-restore command to load firewall rules,
primarily because using separate iptables commands was *already* way
too slow.  

Some time ago there was batch patch that allowed to use standard shell format 
of calling iptables but did everything at once:

http://lists.netfilter.org/pipermail/netfilter-devel/2004-
September/016704.html

It didn't get merged - no idea why.

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Arkadiusz Miśkiewicz        PLD/Linux Team
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