On Thu, Aug 11, 2022 at 01:13:13PM +0200, Reindl Harald wrote: > Am 11.08.22 um 12:46 schrieb Phil Sutter: > > Hi, > > > > On Thu, Aug 11, 2022 at 03:49:41PM +0800, Turritopsis Dohrnii Teo En Ming 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? > > > > Of course, just download iptables tarball from netfilter.org[1] and > > compile it yourself! ;) > > besides that it's a terrible idea to randomly overwrite distro files > one should have explained the OP that the actual firewall lives in the > kernel I didn't suggest "to randomly overwrite distro files". > so this update is pretty pointless unless you have to fix a specific > problem in the userland component We don't know why OP wants v1.8.8. That aside, RHEL9 kernel is pretty recent. Cheers, Phil
