I was setting up 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 ip_tables 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?
It’s worth learning nftables, it’s actually pretty cool.
No doubt! It’s on my
TODO. 🫡yea I never looked back after nftables.
In most cases these days, “iptables” is just a compatibility layer for nftables, translating iptables commands and syntax to nftables rules.
I see! Thanks! Still wonder why the module was/is absent in Artix. 🤔
«I load ip_tables with modprobe, only to lose it after a reboot»
Write the module name into:
/etc/modules-load.d/<name>.conf — on most modern systemd distributions (Ubuntu, Arch, Fedora, etc.)
or /etc/modules on Debian-style systems.OpenRC’s modules-load service reads configuration files from the following locations, in order of precedence
/usr/lib/modules-load.d/
/run/modules-load.d/
/etc/modules-load.d/echo “ip_tables” >/etc/modules-load.d/ip_tables.conf
Thanks!
