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From: Vigneswaran R <vignesh@atc.tcs.com>
Subject: Re: Regarding updating netfilter rules from kernel space
Date: Thu, 08 Dec 2011 14:56:57 +0530
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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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