hi * [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I am doing a project which uses libiptc. > It involves inserting and deleting iptables rules > based on clients' requests. This necessitates the need > for keeping tracking of the rulenumber of all the > rules inserted. > I have gone through the code of iptables and libiptc. > I could not find any routine that can be used to get > the rulenumber of an iptables rule.
I have the same problem, the 'rule number' is a number generated when printing the rules to the screen, therefore not reliable. > WHAT I WANT To KNOW :: > > 1) Given a rule, Is there any way to get the > rulenumber, something like a search routine > 2) If there is no search routine, can we get the > rulenumber when a rule is inserted by sending an > argument or the like I asked the same question a few weeks ago and got no answer, all i found is the code that iptables -D uses but that is very time consuming. There is some piece of code that iptables -D uses to search a rule based on it's parameters. My idea is to add a uuid to each rule but i never got feedback to that idea so i freezed the project. -- Thomas Graf
