On Thursday 24 October 2002 7:44 pm, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > in looking through the system script for iptables under red hat 8.0, > i notice the occasional reference to the file > /proc/net/ip_tables_names, which contains, one per line, the names > of one of more of the possible netfilter tables (filter, nat > and/or mangle). > > what does it mean for a table to have its name in this file? It means that this particular netfilter system supports rules in those tables. If you compile netfilter without mangle table support and then try to add rules to the mangle table, you will get errors. By reading this file you can find out which tables are supported on a given machine. Antony. -- The difference between theory and practice is that in theory there is no difference, whereas in practice there is.
