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From: Jack Bowling <jbinpg@shaw.ca>
Subject: Re: iptables -L TABLE -n -v -d x.x.x.x --dport x -i ethx
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** Reply to message from George Vieira <GeorgeV@citadelcomputer.com.au> on Mon, 01 Jul 2002 16:20:14 +1000


> problem is that sometimes the rule list can be a very long table and I'm
> using it in conjunction with MRTG to graph the byte values. So you can
> imagine how slow MRTG completes and how much CPU is used by continuous
> grepping can be..
> 
> At the moment I've written scripts in PHP to do what I need and works but
> netfilter should be able to redo their source and imitate the "-D INPUT"
> (example) routine to the "-L INPUT" command and instead of deleting the rule
> it (-L)ists it... can't be that hard.. though I'm not a C coder..

I like that idea, George. But then IANAC (I am not a coder), too.

jb