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Re: Question using libiptc

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On Friday, October 25, 2013 8:34:47 AM UTC-5, Jorgen Grahn wrote:
> On Thu, 2013-10-24, Jeremy Brown wrote:
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> > Greetings,
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> > I have a little c program that will use the libiptc api that will
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> > dynamically add rules to iptables. To try and circumvent responses
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> > asking me why I want to do this instead of using system(), the reason
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> > is I wish to dynamically update the iptables from an external program
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> > and the entries will only be known at runtime. I also wish to have
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> > feedback as to the success or failure of these aditions/deletions.
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> I'm not really asking you why, but I note that your requirements don't
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> exclude using iptables(8) ... For example, I assume it has a useful
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> exit code like any sensible Unix utility.
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> /Jorgen
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>   // Jorgen Grahn <grahn@  Oo  o.   .     .
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In this case the number of rule updates can be frequent and performance does matter.

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  Re: Question using libiptc Jorgen Grahn <grahn+nntp@snipabacken.se> - 2013-10-25 13:34 +0000
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        Re: Question using libiptc Jeremy Brown <bjeremy32@gmail.com> - 2013-10-25 14:23 -0700
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