From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Philip Craig <philipc@snapgear.com>
Subject: Re: Shortcuts to counting rules?
Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2008 11:39:59 +1000
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Rick Jones wrote:
> In messing about further and at the risk of yet another emily litella 
> moment (I have no pride when I'm trying to learn something new :) with 
> what the getsockopt(IPT_SO_GET_INFO) returns vs what I get by iterating 
> with libiptc calls, I take it that I cannot just use num_entries from 
> ipt_getinfo but have to retrieve the entries and run through them 
> skipping over chain entries?

Getting beyond my knowledge sorry.  Try asking on the netfilter-devel list.