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From: Rick Jones <rick.jones2@hp.com>
Subject: Re: [Fwd: Re: Shortcuts to counting rules?]
Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2008 11:54:03 -0700
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Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> On Friday 2008-10-31 18:57, Rick Jones wrote:
> 
> 
>>The end goal here is to teach netperf how to get a count of
>>iptables rules in place in the kernel.  There was also a drifting
>>question of whether or not strace should be taught about the
>>getsockopt() options.
> 
> 
> iptables-save | grep ^- | wc -l

Here is where I cop to being a luddite who prefers straight C to calling 
system() :)

> And strace should not be taught that. We have seen at least one
> change of the interpretation of the binary stream.

How about at least the option name(s) so it can present something other 
than the 0x40/0x41 etc?

rick jones