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From: Antony Stone <Antony@Soft-Solutions.co.uk>
Subject: Re: Problems with kernel 2.6.1 and iptables
Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2004 10:47:18 +0000
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On Monday 16 February 2004 10:26 am, Ray Leach wrote:

> The 'filter' table does not exist by default, but the 'FILTER' table
> does. Is this a user chain than you created?

I think you're getting confused here about the difference between chains and 
tables.

Chains are normally named in uppercase; standard ones are INPUT, OUTPUT, 
PREROUTING, POSTROUTING, FORWARD.   User-defined chains can of course be 
added.

Tables are normally named in lowercase; standard ones are filter, nat, mangle.   
Adding a user-defined table is quite a significant programming task, and not 
to be assumed in a reasonably standard configuration of netfilter :)

The 'filter' table should exist in any healthy netfilter install.

Regards,

Antony.

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