Hi On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 3:16 PM, Hinko Kocevar <hinko.kocevar@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > That would mean that when stopping firewall I would need to remove the > modules, or at least one of them, on which I could rely. Yes, I think so... that's the most effective way to do it. > Yes as you put it, iptables is always active, the only question is when > it is actually 'handling' traffic. It would a nice feature if one could > obtain number of eg. 'active' rules across the complete netfilter. Probably that could be done by putting counter or flag in every netfilter hooks being used. Something like: if (hook_exist) { hook_name_flag++ call hook_target; } regards, Mulyadi. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send an email with "unsubscribe kernelnewbies" to ecartis@xxxxxxxxxxxx Please read the FAQ at http://kernelnewbies.org/FAQ