On Thursday 2009-01-15 15:06, Pablo Neira Ayuso wrote: >Patrick McHardy wrote: >> Jan Engelhardt wrote: >>> But the spartanic output of those proc files barely helps (especially >>> in light of multiple revisions), so here is the patch I spoke about, >>> refreshed and rebased, that solves the worries. >> >> That seems a bit overkill. Text-based representation also doesn't seem >> ideal, iptables already has this information and a cmdline user will >> simply use "iptables ... -h" to get the supported option. For other >> programs a binary representation would probably be easier to handle. > >Agreed. The text-based interface seems to me like yet-another-interface >that users may (ab)use (like /proc/net/nf_conntrack, I have seen people >polling from it to display information, this was OK in the early days). >Following this basis, one may come and implement another text-based >interface to display the rule-set in the kernel and so on. But is there an equivalent user tool and interface at this time to obtain the same information? -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netfilter-devel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html