Source: iptables Section: net Priority: important Maintainer: iptables devel team Uploaders: Laurence J. Lane , Arturo Borrero Gonzalez Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 9), autoconf, automake, libtool (>=2.2.6), libnfnetlink-dev, libnetfilter-conntrack-dev, libnetfilter-conntrack3, dh-autoreconf, libnftnl-dev, libmnl-dev, flex, bison Standards-Version: 3.9.5 Homepage: http://www.netfilter.org/ Package: iptables Architecture: linux-any Depends: ${misc:Depends}, ${shlibs:Depends}, libxtables10 (=${binary:Version}) Description: administration tools for packet filtering and NAT iptables is the userspace command line program used to configure the Linux packet filtering ruleset. It is targeted towards system administrators. Since Network Address Translation is also configured from the packet filter ruleset, iptables is used for this, too. The iptables package also includes ip6tables. ip6tables is used for configuring the IPv6 packet filter Package: libxtables10 Architecture: linux-any Depends: ${misc:Depends}, ${shlibs:Depends} Replaces: iptables (<< 1.4.16.3-3) Breaks: iptables (<< 1.4.16.3-3) Description: netfilter xtables library The user-space interface to the Netfilter xtables kernel framework. Package: iptables-dev Architecture: linux-any Priority: optional Depends: ${misc:Depends}, iptables (=${binary:Version}) Conflicts: iptables (<<1.4.2-2) Breaks: linux-libc-dev (<< 3.5) Section: devel Description: iptables development files iptables is used to setup, maintain, and inspect the tables of packet filter rules in the Linux kernel. This package contains the available library (libipq, libiptc, libxtables), header, documentation and related files for iptables development. Package: iptables-nftables-compat Architecture: linux-any Priority: optional Depends: ${misc:Depends}, ${shlibs:Depends}, libxtables10 (=${binary:Version}) Recommends: nftables Description: iptables compat tools for nftables this package includes the compat tools to load iptables, ip6tables, arptables and ebtables rules to the nf_tables kernel subsystem. . The tools are called: 'iptables-compat', 'iptables-compat-save', 'iptables-compat-restore', 'ip6tables-compat', 'ip6tables-compat-save', 'ip6tables-compat-restore', 'arptables-compat' and 'ebtables-compat'. . A basic way to understand this compat stuff is to load the ruleset skeleton, i.e: a first call `iptables-compat -L'. Then, you can use nft, i.e: `nft list ruleset'. Same for the other families.