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Netfilter/iptables
Netfilter is the set of hooks within the Linux kernel for intercepting and manipulating network packets. The best-known component on top of netfilter is the firewall which filters packets, but the hooks are also used by a component which performs network address translation, and by another which provides ipchains backwards compatibility.
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