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From: "Tadas" <tpt@pupa.da.ru>
Subject: what is the purpose of "filter" table?
Date: Sat, 8 Oct 2005 02:33:56 +0300
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As I see flter table cant do anthing usefull, 99% of modules are for mangle
and nat tables.
also dropping packets at input or forward is useless,
because conntrack will kill the atacked machine anyway.

I think it would be good idea to merge raw and filter tables into one
or add all available hooks to filter table, like prerouting and postrouting
I dont undertand what was the original purpose of filter table
since everyhing can be done in mangle table even better.