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From: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@inai.de>
Subject: Re: ip6tables: Warn about use of DROP in nat table
Date: Fri, 10 Jun 2016 12:32:12 +0200 (CEST)
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On Friday 2016-06-10 12:16, Thomas Woerner wrote:

> in iptables.c there is a check of DROP usage in the nat table.In ip6tables,
> this check is not there.Is this intentional?

It must be an oversight, since IPv6 did not have nat back then.