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List:       netfilter
Subject:    Re: Upgrading iptables firewall on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.0
From:       John Haxby <john.haxby () oracle ! com>
Date:       2022-08-25 9:59:42
Message-ID: C2301397-3025-4C11-9FFC-879B9190B1CB () oracle ! com
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> On 11 Aug 2022, at 08:37, Turritopsis Dohrnii Teo En Ming <tdtemccna@gmail.com> \
> wrote: 
> Subject: Upgrading iptables firewall on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.0
> 
> Good day from Singapore,
> 
> The following RPM packages are installed on my Red Hat Enterprise
> Linux 9.0 virtual machine.
> 
> iptables-libs-1.8.7-28.el9.x86_64
> iptables-nft-1.8.7-28.el9.x86_64
> 
> Is it possible to upgrade iptables firewall to the latest version 1.8.8?

I wouldn't recommend it.  Red Hat back port security and bugfixes to the base version \
so that it remains stable -- it's quite possible that updating would change the \
api/abi and, for example, podman.

TBH, I'm surprised iptables is still there: I thought RHEL had switch over to nft \
entirely.

jch


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