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From: Nils Juergens <ju@isf.rwth-aachen.de>
Subject: Re: what is the relationship between Netfilter & iptables.
Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2003 15:35:50 +0200
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On Tue, 19.08.03, Kyoungyong Lee <leeky@icu.ac.kr> wrote:

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> I'd like to know the relationship between Netfilter and iptables.

If i'm not mistaken, netfilter is the linux kernel module itself, while
iptables is "just" the programm to control netfilter.

So you use iptables to modify netfilter rules.

hope that helps,

Nils
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