<HTML ><HEAD ><TITLE >Layout of this document</TITLE ><META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="Modular DocBook HTML Stylesheet Version 1.7"><LINK REL="HOME" TITLE="Linux Advanced Routing & Traffic Control HOWTO" HREF="index.html"><LINK REL="UP" TITLE="Introduction" HREF="lartc.intro.html"><LINK REL="PREVIOUS" TITLE="Mailing list" HREF="lartc.intro.mlist.html"><LINK REL="NEXT" TITLE="Introduction to iproute2" HREF="lartc.iproute2.html"></HEAD ><BODY CLASS="SECT1" BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#000000" LINK="#0000FF" VLINK="#840084" ALINK="#0000FF" ><DIV CLASS="NAVHEADER" ><TABLE SUMMARY="Header navigation table" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TH COLSPAN="3" ALIGN="center" >Linux Advanced Routing & Traffic Control HOWTO</TH ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="lartc.intro.mlist.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="80%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="bottom" >Chapter 2. Introduction</TD ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="lartc.iproute2.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"></DIV ><DIV CLASS="SECT1" ><H1 CLASS="SECT1" ><A NAME="LARTC.INTRO.LAYOUT" ></A >2.7. Layout of this document</H1 ><P >We will be doing interesting stuff almost immediately, which also means that there will initially be parts that are explained incompletely or are not perfect. Please gloss over these parts and assume that all will become clear.</P ><P >Routing and filtering are two distinct things. Filtering is documented very well by Rusty's HOWTOs, available here:</P ><P ></P ><UL ><LI ><P ><A HREF="http://netfilter.samba.org/unreliable-guides/" TARGET="_top" > Rusty's Remarkably Unreliable Guides</A > </P ></LI ></UL ><P >We will be focusing mostly on what is possible by combining netfilter and iproute2.</P ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="NAVFOOTER" ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"><TABLE SUMMARY="Footer navigation table" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="lartc.intro.mlist.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="index.html" ACCESSKEY="H" >Home</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="lartc.iproute2.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" >Mailing list</TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="lartc.intro.html" ACCESSKEY="U" >Up</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" >Introduction to iproute2</TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ></BODY ></HTML >