Talk:Iptables

Reading rules helper

iptables -S | sorted | colored   Lacsap (talk) 08:00, 31 July 2019 (UTC)

iptables-legacy/iptables-nft

With recent posts to arch-dev-public "News draft: iptables now defaults to the nft backend", apparently iptables will switch from legacy backend to nft. This will change package names. "iptables" will be what was "iptables-nft" and "iptables-legacy" will be what was "iptables". Will this wiki page be updated before the change occurs? I need to stay with iptables-legacy. Will there be an iptables-legacy page describing how to remain on what is currently iptables, and anything else required other than uninstalling iptables and installing iptables-legacy? David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. -- Rankin Law Firm, PLLC (talk) 01:23, 4 April 2026 (UTC)

Why update before the actual change occurs? That's confusing and makes no sense.

As for the latter, my experience in other distros shows that simply installing and using iptables-legacy should be enough. A note about it in the article would be enough I think.

Hanabishi (talk) 09:41, 4 April 2026 (UTC)