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From: Sebastien Tricaud <sebastien.tricaud@wengo.fr>
Subject: Knowing tables change
Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2006 12:47:48 +0100
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Hi folks,

I would like to know if there is a way to watch for tables alteration.

I am sure there is a better way than doing "iptables -t table -L" loop 
and compare with previously stored data.

When I look over Internet for possible answers, I can find something 
that would do the job. It seems libpkttnetlink is for this purpose. 
However no developments are latter than 2002. Is it a working stuff and 
nothing has to be improved anymore ?

At a lower level, I can see libnfnetlink is the low level library I can 
also use for it: there is the following quote -> "provides 
open/close/receive functions only to be used by other libraries 
libctnetlink/libpkttnetlink".


Do you know which lib should I use ?


Thanks,
Sebastien Tricaud.