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01/01: gnu: iptables: Mention "firewall".
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Ludovic Courtès |
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01/01: gnu: iptables: Mention "firewall". |
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Fri, 29 Jul 2016 15:32:37 +0000 (UTC) |
civodul pushed a commit to branch master
in repository guix.
commit 35e4b3d546e8e160db973730496fa331d7a9d6f8
Author: Ludovic Courtès <address@hidden>
Date: Fri Jul 29 17:32:03 2016 +0200
gnu: iptables: Mention "firewall".
Suggested by ng0 <address@hidden>.
* gnu/packages/linux.scm (iptables)[description]: Mention "firewall".
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gnu/packages/linux.scm | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/gnu/packages/linux.scm b/gnu/packages/linux.scm
index 001908f..6bdb6b1 100644
--- a/gnu/packages/linux.scm
+++ b/gnu/packages/linux.scm
@@ -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