On Thu, Apr 18, 2002 at 08:22:57AM +0200, Patrick Schaaf wrote: > Hi Joakim & all, > > > We (me and Martin) has discussed a table, "border", that is the absolutly > > first thing that is being travered after leaving the netcard driver. > > I like the idea (a lot!), as well as the placement, but I'm not really > fond of the name. May I suggest one of two things? > > A) Call the table "netdev", with chains "RX" and "TX" > B) Call the table "filter", with chains "RX" and "TX" > > RX/TX could alternatively be RECEIVE/TRANSMIT, if they seem to short.
however, this would clearly violate layering. IPtables is about IP packets, not about ARP, IPX, IPv6, and some other weird stuff going on on the network interface. > best regards > Patrick -- Live long and prosper - Harald Welte / [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.gnumonks.org/ ============================================================================ GCS/E/IT d- s-: a-- C+++ UL++++$ P+++ L++++$ E--- W- N++ o? K- w--- O- M+ V-- PS++ PE-- Y++ PGP++ t+ 5-- !X !R tv-- b+++ !DI !D G+ e* h--- r++ y+(*)
