Dear all, I am newbie. However, I tried iptables recently and succeeded. I don''t understand the relationship between iptables and iproute2, is iproute used to replace iptables? Thanks, James
Am Mittwoch, 21. August 2002 00:21 schrieb James Ma:> Dear all, > > I am newbie. However, I tried iptables recently and succeeded. I don''t > understand the relationship between iptables and iproute2, is iproute used > to replace iptables?No. The iproute2 utilities allow to set various things, such as ip addresses, routing entries or the traffic shaper. The iptables tool is responsible for the firewall and the rules in there - as well as some packet mangling and network address translation. You can combine both tools with the -j MARK directive .. rtfm ;-) - Thilo Schulz _______________________________________________ LARTC mailing list / LARTC@mailman.ds9a.nl http://mailman.ds9a.nl/mailman/listinfo/lartc HOWTO: http://lartc.org/
On Wednesday 21 August 2002 00:21, James Ma wrote:> Dear all, > > I am newbie. However, I tried iptables recently and succeeded. I don''t > understand the relationship between iptables and iproute2, is iproute used > to replace iptables?iptables is to create firewall chains iproute2 contains 2 programs : ip : For setting/changing all the ip configuration and routing tc : For manipulating the bandwidth managing part of the kernel But iptables and iproute can work together. You can mark packets with iptables and use that mark to route packets or use that mark in the filters you can add with tc. More info about the iproute2 utility can be found on www.lartc.org. Stef -- stef.coene@docum.org "Using Linux as bandwidth manager" http://www.docum.org/ #lartc @ irc.oftc.net _______________________________________________ LARTC mailing list / LARTC@mailman.ds9a.nl http://mailman.ds9a.nl/mailman/listinfo/lartc HOWTO: http://lartc.org/