ipchains-1.3.*-Q.patch
This is a patch for ipchains-1.3.9 or ipchains-1.3.10 which adds the -Q option. This option takes a filename or ``-'' as an argument. If a filename is given, ipchains reads its commands from the file. If ``-'' is given, ipchains reads its commands from standard input. Blank lines and shell-style comments are ignored so it is possible to write executable #!/sbin/ipchains scripts.
This allows ipchains to perform all of it's tasks in a single process instead of several hundred invocations of the same process so starting an ipchains packet filtering firewall can now be done instantaneously.
Written by raf <raf@raf.org>