Subj : Re: CVS commit web/html/i
To   : Angus Mcleod
From : Belly
Date : Sat Apr 09 2005 01:52 am

  Re: Re: CVS commit web/html/i
  By: Angus Mcleod to Belly on Sat Apr 09 2005 12:08 am

 >  > (are they even called 'chains' anymore? 'Table' just doesn't sound 
 >  > right.)
 > 
 > No, they are still chains.  iptables recognises three tables called 
 > 'filter', 'nat' and 'mangle'.  These tables contain default *chains*.
 > 
 > The 'filter' table contains 'INPUT', 'FORWARD' and 'OUTPUT' chains.  The 
 > 'nat' table contains 'PREROUTING', 'POSTROUTING', and 'OUTPUT' chains.  I 
 > can't remember what and all is in the 'mangle' table.
 > 
 > User-defined chains are created in a particular table:
 > 
 > 	/usr/sbin/iptables --table filter -N my_user_defined-chain
 > 
 > and then you can --append or --insert rules into the user defined or 
 > pre-defined chains as usual, and --jump to the user defined chains from 
 > one of the built-in chains as needed.
 > 
 > Chains have not gone away.  They have just been organized into tables.  

I assume that what you meant to say was 'yes'

:^P

     o
    (O) 
   BeLLy


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