On Mon, 23 Feb 2004, rohit persaie wrote: > Hi all, > > I want to know the advantates and disadvantages of > using > custom chains for managing packet flow. On the netfilter-devel list, you've asked: "i want to use patch-o-matic, and also want to create a patch of my own. please tell me how to do it.", as well as "i wanna know exact differences between netfilter and iptables...i wanna know full information at kernel level as well as userlevel, it will be great if i can get a diagram...functional diagram ... + description of files with are used." May I ask why you're placing these questions to the mailing lists? Cheers, - Bill --------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Assuming that piece of ear weighed about 1/2 an ounce, Bill [Gates] could afford to eat 443.39 pounds of Evander Holyfield if he were so inclined." -=- http://web.quuxuum.org/~evan/bgnw.html (Courtesy of James Mastros <root@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>) -------------------------------------------------------------------------- William Stearns (wstearns@xxxxxxxxx). Mason, Buildkernel, freedups, p0f, rsync-backup, ssh-keyinstall, dns-check, more at: http://www.stearns.org --------------------------------------------------------------------------