On Tue, 2012-10-02 at 22:20 +0200, Giuseppe Longo wrote: > Hello, > i'm a student of computer science, working on a project using iptables. > I'm confused how the packet is treated when it's arrived in the iptables. > > Someone can explain me this process? Well there are various tutorials, none of which I can find right now, but a picture paints a thousand words... This diagram is a good place to start as it's simple, although probably out of date: http://www.docum.org/docum.org/kptd/ Once you've got your head around that, this is the fully comprehensive one, but tougher for beginners: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/37/Netfilter-packet-flow.svg If you've got any specific questions, then please ask! Andy -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netfilter" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
