> I do this sort of thing by creating a user-defined table, putting all my 
> rules into it, and then creating a jump to that table from the system table I 
> want it to apply to (usually FORWARD).
> When I want to change it, I create a new user-defined table (different name, 
> leave the old one intact), put all the rules into it, and then insert the 
> jump to the new table and remove the jump to the old one.
> 
> I know the last two operations are not quite atomic,

They could be, if you use "-R" to _replace_ the jump rule.

best regards
  Patrick

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