Hi Thomas, Thanks for the reply. I need to clarify this. Is iptables(user space tool) puts hook into the netfilter framework? Ganesan On 7/27/07, Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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
