On Mon, 2004-02-16 at 12:47, Antony Stone wrote: > On Monday 16 February 2004 10:26 am, Ray Leach wrote: > > > The 'filter' table does not exist by default, but the 'FILTER' table > > does. Is this a user chain than you created? > > I think you're getting confused here about the difference between chains and > tables. > Thank you, you are quite correct ... > Chains are normally named in uppercase; standard ones are INPUT, OUTPUT, > PREROUTING, POSTROUTING, FORWARD. User-defined chains can of course be > added. > > Tables are normally named in lowercase; standard ones are filter, nat, mangle. > Adding a user-defined table is quite a significant programming task, and not > to be assumed in a reasonably standard configuration of netfilter :) > > The 'filter' table should exist in any healthy netfilter install. > > Regards, > > Antony. -- -- Raymond Leach <raymondl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Network Support Specialist http://www.knowledgefactory.co.za "lynx -source http://www.rchq.co.za/raymondl.asc | gpg --import" Key fingerprint = 7209 A695 9EE0 E971 A9AD 00EE 8757 EE47 F06F FB28 --
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