Xtables
Xtables is the protocol-agnostic part of the kernel-level table code. Xtables1 also serves as an umbrella term to denote ip_tables, ip6_tables, arp_tables and ebtables.
Developments
- Xtables2 A6 User Documentation (pdf), (txt)
- Xtables2 A7 Developer Documentation (pdf), (txt)
- Xtables2 A6 Preview for Linux 2.6.37-rc1
git://dev.medozas.de/linux xtables2_a6 - libnetfilter_xtables for A6 (bz2),
(git)
- libHX — available in Linux distributions
- Pablo Neira Ayuso's libmnl — distro availability pending
(I am using LyX for writing, so the document source files - that are not copied to this machine atm - can be converted to latex and whatever else from there. txt is produced by LyX directly.)
Xtables-addons
Xtables-addons is the successor to patch-o-matic(-ng). Likewise, it contains extensions that were not accepted in the main iptables package.
Its homepage is at xtables-addons.sf.net.
