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3. How Can I Help?

  1. Subscribe to the mailing list: send the word `subscribe' to `ipchains-dev-request' at rustcorp.com.au. In a couple of months we'll probably spin-off a netfilter list.
  2. Test iptables. Do wierd stuff.
  3. Run the test suite. It currently assumes NO other network traffic.
  4. Add to the test suite. It's trivial to add administrative tests (eg. iptables shouldn't accept names longer than a certain length, or two identical names, etc.)
  5. Read the code. Look for problems and loopholes I may have missed, both userspace and kernelspace. Send discussions and patches to the mailing list.
  6. Write a module for iptables, NAT or netfilter.
  7. Implement the netfilter hooks for other (non-IPv4) protocols.


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