#iptables

[artix/open-rc/iptables] Why did I have to manually load the ip_tables module? I was setting IP iptables like I have done a billion times before, but when trying to /etc/init.d/iptables save, it said that the kernel doesn’t have support for it. Wut? So I load it with modprobe, only to lose it after a reboot, so I shoved it into modules in mkinitcpio.conf, which seems to have helped. What’s going on? Are we forcibly moving on to nftables?

@mathew@universeodon.com we switched most of our #Debian virtual machines to #nftables a few years ago. So now we have exemptions for several applications like virtual machines that use #docker since that uses #iptables and screws over our nftables config when you restart a container or the docker daemon. I think it will take years before nftables works with everything just like it is with ipv6.

iptables now defaults to the nft backend https://archlinux.org/news/iptables-now-defaults-to-the-nft-backend/ #linux #ArchLinux #iptables #nftables #opensource