From: Vigneswaran R <vignesh@atc.tcs.com>
To: Ajith Adapa <adapa.ajith@gmail.com>
Cc: netfilter@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Regarding updating netfilter rules from kernel space
Date: Thu, 08 Dec 2011 14:56:57 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4EE082E1.9000600@atc.tcs.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CADAe=+KR0vsg8kULz3EuDWQVwZ+ojhAhOyaMV8bARBSMQ-Jhug@mail.gmail.com>
On Friday 02 December 2011 09:45 AM, Ajith Adapa wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I want to update "RULES" in netfilter from a kernel module similar to
> iptables doing the same update from user space.
I don't know whether netfilter exhibits any APIs for the other modules
to do that.
However, I could think of a work around using "call_usermodehelper()".
You can execute a userspace program (say, iptables) using this function
from kernel space.
Regards,
Vignesh
>
> Is there any references or docs to above scenario which can help me out ?
>
> Regards,
> Ajith
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2011-12-02 4:15 Regarding updating netfilter rules from kernel space Ajith Adapa
2011-12-08 9:26 ` Vigneswaran R [this message]
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