Hi, Le Fri, 27 Jul 2007 12:15:53 +0530, "Ganesan Natarajan" <natrajputra@xxxxxxxxx> a écrit : > What is the difference between the netfilter hooks and > iptables rules? > > Are both same? Netfilter in the kernel part, while iptables is an userspace program that allows to tell Netfilter how it should behave. >From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netfilter: « Netfilter is a framework that provides a set of hooks within the Linux kernel for intercepting and manipulating network packets. [...] iptables is the name of the user space tool by which administrators create rules for the packet filtering and NAT modules. » Sincerly, Thomas -- Thomas Petazzoni - thomas.petazzoni@xxxxxxxx http://{thomas,sos,kos}.enix.org - http://www.toulibre.org http://www.{livret,agenda}dulibre.org -- To unsubscribe from this list: send an email with "unsubscribe kernelnewbies" to ecartis@xxxxxxxxxxxx Please read the FAQ at http://kernelnewbies.org/FAQ
