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From: Victor Julien <victor@nk.nl>
To: Netfilter List <netfilter@lists.netfilter.org>
Subject: Re: Creating rules without the /sbin/iptables command?
Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2004 21:59:45 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4058BC41.3040702@nk.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1079551538.1424.23.camel@anduril.intranet.cartel-securite.net>

Hi Cedric,

Okay, thanx i will do that. I thought that netfilter-devel was only for 
development of netfilter itself. My bad ;)

By the way, are the iptables libs in /usr/lib/iptables meant for use by 
third party tools, or is this considered a dirty hack?

Regards,
Victor

Cedric Blancher wrote:
> Le mer 17/03/2004 à 19:46, Victor Julien a écrit :
> 
>>My program (written in c) creates rules by opening a pipe to 
>>/sbin/iptables. However this is quite slow with large rulessets and on 
>>slow hardware. Is there another way, like an iptables librarycall or 
>>something?
> 
> 
> You could use iptables libs that stand in /usr/lib/iptables, just like
> iptables does.
> 
> You should however ask netfilter developpers mailing list.
> 
> Cc : netfilter-devel@lists.netfilter.org
> 



  reply	other threads:[~2004-03-17 20:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-03-17 18:46 Creating rules without the /sbin/iptables command? Victor Julien
2004-03-17 19:25 ` Cedric Blancher
2004-03-17 20:59   ` Victor Julien [this message]
2004-03-18  8:56     ` Cedric Blancher
2004-03-17 21:34   ` Henrik Nordstrom
2004-03-17 23:04   ` John A. Sullivan III

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