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by e12e 909 days ago
> I’d love to see how iptables actually works.

If you're actually interested in iptables the old packet filter how-to is great:

https://www.netfilter.org/documentation/HOWTO/packet-filteri...

But iptables is turning into just a legacy interface for nftables in modern Linux. See eg:

https://wiki.debian.org/nftables

https://wiki.nftables.org/wiki-nftables/index.php/Main_Page