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From: Stephane Ouellette <ouellettes@videotron.ca>
Subject: Re: How to find nvl table?
Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2003 04:11:59 -0400
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To: Bobo <boboaq@163.com>
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Bobo wrote:

>HI
>
>     Some days ago ,a member of here reply me the followings about traffic account:
>  
>
>>try this one:
>>
>>iptables -nvL INPUT
>>
>>in Perl:
>>
>>open(CHAINS, "iptables -nvL INPUT|") or die "Error reading chains\n";
>>
>>while(<CHAINS>)
>>{
>># read the lines one by one, matching on the text you want
>>}
>>
>>close(CHAINS);
>>    
>>
>
>   My platform is Redhat 7.2 in  default congiguration.
>
>  While I execute "iptables  -nvL input"
>  
>

Table names are case sensitive. Use INPUT, not input :-)

>  I got the following message on screen:
>
>
>   [root@myfirewall account]# iptables -nvL  input
>iptables: Table does not exist (do you need to insmod?)
>
>    why?  how to find the talbe? does  it need a special patch?
>
> Thanks.
>
>
>  
>