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authorFlorian Klink <flokli@flokli.de>2022-02-24 17:22:17 +0100
committerGitHub <noreply@github.com>2022-02-24 17:22:17 +0100
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Merge pull request #161426 from flokli/rl-2111-nftables
nixos/doc: improve release notes for iptables-nft and systemd with nftables backend
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@@ -26,8 +26,26 @@
       </listitem>
       <listitem>
         <para>
-          <literal>iptables</literal> now uses
-          <literal>nf_tables</literal> backend.
+          <literal>iptables</literal> is now using
+          <literal>nf_tables</literal> under the hood, by using
+          <literal>iptables-nft</literal>, similar to
+          <link xlink:href="https://wiki.debian.org/nftables#Current_status">Debian</link>
+          and
+          <link xlink:href="https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/iptables-nft-default">Fedora</link>.
+          This means, <literal>ip[6]tables</literal>,
+          <literal>arptables</literal> and <literal>ebtables</literal>
+          commands will actually show rules from some specific tables in
+          the <literal>nf_tables</literal> kernel subsystem.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          systemd got an <literal>nftables</literal> backend, and
+          configures (networkd) rules in their own
+          <literal>io.systemd.*</literal> tables. Check
+          <literal>nft list ruleset</literal> to see these rules, not
+          <literal>iptables-save</literal> (which only shows
+          <literal>iptables</literal>-created rules.
         </para>
       </listitem>
       <listitem>