Subj : Re: CVS commit web/html/i
To   : Belly
From : Angus Mcleod
Date : Sat Apr 09 2005 10:40 am

  Re: Re: CVS commit web/html/i
  By: Belly to Angus Mcleod on Sat Apr 09 2005 01:52:00

 >  >  > (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

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