Re: Quickly checking number of rules/chains

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On Wed, 2008-11-26 at 16:43 +0100, Thomas Jacob wrote:
> I'm looking for something that can frequently check this without having
> to transfer the whole ruleset from the kernel and decode it, which
> can take up a considerable amount of resources if you have a
> really huge rulesets (XXXk rules), in order to determine whether
> any rules are loaded yet.

What about /sys/module/iptable_{raw,nat,filter,mangle}/refcnt, is this
always zero when no chains and rules exist, and always >0 in the other
case?


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