Re: [Fwd: Re: Shortcuts to counting rules?]

[Rick Jones <rick.jones2@hp.com>]

Jesper Dangaard Brouer wrote:
> On Sat, 1 Nov 2008, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> 
>> On Friday 2008-10-31 19:54, Rick Jones wrote:
>>
>>>>
>>>> iptables-save | grep ^- | wc -l
>>>
>>>
>>> Here is where I cop to being a luddite who prefers straight C to calling
>>> system() :)
>>
>>
>> But there is no C library. And libiptc is so strongly internal that
>> it does not fall under libraries-to-use.
> 
> 
> I don't see why not to use libiptc.  Its been one of the most stable / 
> less-changed through the years...

I wouldn't mind using libiptc, but it seems to be something the 
maintainers don't want mere mortals using.  Also, and perhaps as a 
result, it isn't entirely clear that even installing an iptables-dev 
package (on which I'd rather not have netperf rely if I can avoid it) 
actually gives a libiptc everywhere.

That leaves deciphering at least some of what the existing libiptc code 
does and mimmicing it in netperf :(

rick jones

> 
> I'm using libiptc quite extensivly in IPTables::libiptc Perl CPAN module.
> 
> Hilsen
>   Jesper Brouer
> 
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