Sorry if I am sounding stupid. Though I could see the declarations in the 1.2.9 archive I am unable to find the definition of iptc_* functions themselves. Can you point me to the file that you are talking of ? Please can someone give an hint on the user to kernel space communication. Regards, Jambunathan K. >>> Kiran Kumar <immidi_kiran@xxxxxxxxx> 02/03/04 9:27 AM >>> --- Jambunathan Jambunathan <kjambunathan@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I am interested in knowing the netfilter > infrastructure and I would > like to know how iptables communicates with > netfilter ( user to > kernel space communication ) I understand that it > happens through > raw sockets through setsockot and getsockopt. Also > there are a > good number of iptc_* calls that are declared in > libiptc.h which > are used by the iptables user space tool. I would > like to know > where I can see the implementations for these iptc_* > calls. These are in the libiptc directory of the iptables module of cvs. ===== Regards, Kiran Kumar Immidi __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free web site building tool. Try it! http://webhosting.yahoo.com/ps/sb/