POM

POM

[Rakotomandimby Mihamina]

Hi ,
I'm sorry to ask such a dumb question but what is Patch-O-Matic ?
What is it ? the netfilter website gives me no clear information enough 
, and i dont know if i should use it or not ...

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Re: POM

[Antony Stone]

On Friday 26 March 2004 3:43 pm, Rakotomandimby Mihamina wrote:

> Hi ,
> I'm sorry to ask such a dumb question but what is Patch-O-Matic ?
> What is it ? the netfilter website gives me no clear information enough
> , and i dont know if i should use it or not ...

Patch-O-Matic is a way to add other features to netfilter which are not part 
of the mainstream distribution.

Regard it as a series of patches, each of which adds something different to 
the standard netfilter, which happen to have been collected all in one place.

Whether or not you want to use it depends on whether you want netfilter to do 
any of the more unusual or exotic things which people have written the 
extensions for.

Take a look at the lists on the website and see if any seem useful.

http://www.netfilter.org/patch-o-matic/pom-base.html
http://www.netfilter.org/patch-o-matic/pom-extra.html

Regards,

Antony.

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Re: POM

[Frederic de Villamil]

On Fri, 26 Mar 2004, Rakotomandimby Mihamina wrote:

> Hi ,
> I'm sorry to ask such a dumb question but what is Patch-O-Matic ?
> What is it ? the netfilter website gives me no clear information enough
> , and i dont know if i should use it or not ...


Hi,
Patch-o-matic comes from patch and automatic (huhu ^_^).
There are a lot of  functionnalities added to netfilter that aren't in
the vanilla  kernel. But  you can  patch your kernel  in order  to use
them.
Patch-o-matic  is a script  that let  you select  functionnalities you
want (like new targets, new matches) and patches your kernel.

You shall have a look at
http://netfilter.org/documentation/HOWTO//netfilter-extensions-HOWTO.html

regards
Frederic

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