What is iptables?Netfilter and iptables are the framework inside the Linux 2.4.x kernel which enable packet filtering, network address translation (NAT) and other packet mangling. Please note that some of the plugins included in this package require patches to the kernel. Without those patches you won't be able to use some of the targets and matches that iptables support. What is different from the official Debian package?This version have support for the netfilter add-ons which I use all the time. This includes the CLASSIFY and IMQ patches. It is also based on the latest iptables tarball on http://www.netfilter.org/downloads.html. This was iptables-1.2.11.tar.bz2 at the time of writing. This package also differs from the official Debian package in several ways: It does not include any documentation, the plugins are linked statically (resulting in smaller size), and there are no iptables-save/iptables-restore utilities and startup scripts. |