Re: [SOLVED] Re: Native support of counting rules?

[Eliezer Croitoru <eliezer@ngtech.co.il>]

On 1/4/2013 7:39 AM, Born Without wrote:
> That is not true.
> There also is the security table.
> And if you have xtables-addons installed, there might also be the
> rawpost table.
> But any of those might not be loaded, if compiled in as loadable module.
> So you might need to read /proc/net/ip_tables_names to work only on
> existing tables, without loading unwanted/needed ones.
>
> [...]

You can read For these specific cases.
But still it's not changing the basic concept which you don't need a new 
binary to do all the above just add:
tables=`cat /proc/net/ip_tables_names`

He do have a point that adding this option he seeks is such a simple 
task and can be added into iptables as a simple --rules-count or any 
other directive.

I really don't know why and how this system works so if a binary works 
it's fine by me.

The distance between the Binary file and this script is portability and 
complexity.

Regards,
Eliezer