On Thursday 2011-05-26 20:28, Eric Dumazet wrote:

Le jeudi 26 mai 2011 à 18:53 +0200, Patrick McHardy a écrit :

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The netfilter coreteam presents:

    iptables version 1.4.10

the iptables release for the 2.6.39 kernels. Due to some mistakes
on my side we didn't have a release for longer than expected, so
this contains a rather large number of changes.

Changes include:

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- a new iptables option "-C" to check for existance of a rules

Nice, but this still loads modules...

So does iptables -S (and -L).  :)