Iptables module for debian-like systems

[spuzirev]

Iptables module is not working on Debian-like systems. How can it be fixed?

[techhat]

@spuzirev, iptables on Debian can be tricky here because Debian does not have a standard location for iptables files. The defaults that we've set up are for Arch, Gentoo and RedHat. On other systems, you need to manually specify a conf_file to use.

[spuzirev]

Hmm, you can use /etc/iptables/rules.v4 file, this is standard location for package iptables-persistent.
Why not?

[techhat]

@spuzirev is that the default for Debian proper, or Ubuntu, or something else? Or am I missing something?

[spuzirev]

Yes, Debian and its derivatives (e.g. Ubuntu) has no standard location for saving iptables rules in package 'iptables'. But they have package 'iptables-persistent', which provides init-script /etc/init.d/iptables-persistent with 'save' argument like RedHat iptables init-script. In this case rules are saved to /etc/iptables/rules.v4 for ipv4 and /etc/iptables/rules.v6 for ipv6.

As I know this package works equally on Ubuntu, Debian and Mint.

[techhat]

Perfect. I'll get that in there as the default for Debian. Thanks @spuzirev!