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authorLudovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>2016-07-29 17:32:03 +0200
committerLudovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>2016-07-29 17:32:03 +0200
commit35e4b3d546e8e160db973730496fa331d7a9d6f8 (patch)
treebf4b9c321c770bef61e1c8cea104a6c2a143d4c4 /gnu/packages
parent7c6bdeec232a02e192061b5849af3041ec43bf3f (diff)
gnu: iptables: Mention "firewall".
Suggested by ng0 <ng0@we.make.ritual.n0.is>. * gnu/packages/linux.scm (iptables)[description]: Mention "firewall".
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diff --git a/gnu/packages/linux.scm b/gnu/packages/linux.scm
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@@ -889,7 +889,7 @@ MIDI functionality to the Linux-based operating system.")
(synopsis "Program to configure the Linux IP packet filtering rules")
(description
"iptables is the userspace command line program used to configure the
-Linux 2.4.x and later IPv4 packet filtering ruleset. It is targeted towards
+Linux 2.4.x and later IPv4 packet filtering ruleset (firewall). It is targeted at
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