Command: apt-cache show iptables Package: iptables Priority: important Section: net Installed-Size: 1272 Maintainer: Laurence J. Lane Architecture: i386 Version: 1.4.0-3 Depends: libc6 (>= 2.7-1) Filename: pool/main/i/iptables/iptables_1.4.0-3_i386.deb Size: 403468 MD5sum: 96e8576c0836d0335931817e285769a0 SHA1: 6117b95b0de7294b385778df64d435eb3caf46e0 SHA256: 9679372846a6700c5b08f9c8c391b5ba498383812fee4e4a41898a2ee5aabe5b Description: administration tools for packet filtering and NAT These are the user-space administration tools for the Linux kernel's netfilter and iptables. netfilter and iptables provide a framework for stateful and stateless packet filtering, network and port address translation, and other IP packet manipulation. The framework is the successor to ipchains. . netfilter and iptables are used in applications such as Internet connection sharing, firewalls, IP accounting, transparent proxying, advanced routing and traffic control. Homepage: http://www.netfilter.org/ Tag: admin::configuring, interface::commandline, network::firewall, role::program, role::shared-lib, scope::utility, security::firewall, works-with::network-traffic Package: iptables Status: install ok installed Priority: important Section: net Installed-Size: 1332 Maintainer: Laurence J. Lane Architecture: i386 Version: 1.3.6.0debian1-5 Depends: libc6 (>= 2.3.6-6), libselinux1 (>= 1.32) Description: administration tools for packet filtering and NAT netfilter and iptables provide a Linux kernel framework for stateful and stateless packet filtering, network and port address translation, and other IP packet manipulation. The framework is the successor to ipchains. . netfilter and iptables are used in applications such as Internet connection sharing, firewalls, IP accounting, transparent proxying, advanced routing and traffic control. . Please note: the iptables extensions included in this package require kernel support that might not be available in official Linux kernel sources or Debian's packaged Linux kernel sources. And if support for any extension is available for the specific Linux kernel source version, that support might not be enabled in the Linux kernel binary in use. . In particular, kernel patches for IPV4OPTSSTRIP, ROUTE, TARPIT, ipv4options, u32 and set are currently located in patch-o-matic-ng via the netfilter website. patch-o-matic-ng patches are often imported into the official Linux kernel source tree. . netfilter web site: http://www.netfilter.org/