IPTables-libiptc version 0.05 ============================= This package provides a Perl interface to the netfilter/iptables C-library libiptc. Advantages of this module: Many rule changes can be done very fast. Several rule changes is committed atomically. This module is heavily inspired by the CPAN module IPTables-IPv4. The CPAN module IPTables-IPv4 could not be used because it has not been keept up-to-date, with the newest iptables extentions. This is a result of the module design, as it contains every extention and thus needs to port them individually. This package has another approach, it links with the systems libiptc.a library and depend on dynamic loading of iptables extensions available on the system. This design limits us to only export the libiptc chain manipulation functions. All rule manipulations are done through the iptables.c "do_command" function. (As iptables.c is not made as a library, the package unfortunally needs to maintain/contain this C file). DEPENDENCIES This module requires these other modules and libraries: iptables libiptc.a The iptables version installed on your system needs to match the IPTABLES_VERSION variable this module is compiled with. Currently depends on iptables/libiptc version 1.3.4, because this version contained a chain reference bug. For this reason, it has been necessary to include it in the module and compile libiptc.a our self, with this bug fixed. This has been fixed in 1.3.6 by me, but this module has not been updated yet. Thus, to get started using this module quickly, download and install iptables version 1.3.4 on your system. REMEMBER also to do a: 'make install-devel' Debian hint: "apt-get install iptables-dev" to get libiptc.h. To use a newer version (that 1.3.4) with this module: 1. From iptables tarball, copy libiptc/libip*.c to library_iptc/ 2. Copy iptables.c to iptables/ 3. Change the variable IPTABLES_VERSION in Makefile.PL INSTALLATION Notice this module depends on iptables dynamic loadable libraries, thus it needs to know the path to them (default assumes they are located in /lib/iptables). The iptables path for dynamic loading (where the libipt_*.so files are located) can be altered by setting the variable IPTABLES_LIB_DIR while calling make. This can also be changed later at runtime setting the environment variable IPTABLES_LIB_DIR. To install this module type the following: perl Makefile.PL PREFIX=/usr/local/ make IPTABLES_LIB_DIR=/usr/local/lib/iptables sudo make test make install PREFIX=/usr/local/stow/IPTables-libiptc-0.05 cd /usr/local/stow/ stow IPTables-libiptc-0.05 COPYRIGHT AND LICENCE Copyright (C) 2006 by Jesper Dangaard Brouer This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself, either Perl version 5.8.4 or, at your option, any later version of Perl 5 you may have available.