In many cases, this isn't actually a service per-se, it's just a service-executable script which handles loading / unloading iptables rulesets.

In comments, you refer to 'other people' saying that it is a service. There is no given 'program' you can start or stop to disable iptables - there's commands you can run which do this (such as iptables -F among others), but there's no specific service to start or stop. That means that the iptables command you call is actually just a front-end that helps with understanding / reading / interpreting / configuring the underlying netfilter rules at the system/kernel level for that boot session. It's ever-present, the only thing of relevance is what rules are loaded into it at a given time. It's not a specific service or program that you can 'start' or 'stop'. Iptables is part of the kernel / netfilter. usr/local/share/doc/pgl/examples/iptables-custom-insert.sh usr/local/share/doc/pgl/examples/iptables-custom-remove.sh usr/share/man/man8/iptables-restore.8.gz usr/share/man/man8/iptables-extensions.8.gz usr/share/bash-completion/completions/iptables usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/ufw/_pycache_/backend_ usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/ufw/backend_iptables.py I ran find / -name ' iptables' and got this /usr/bin/iptables-xml I found this file But there's no Indication of a start function /usr/sbin/iptables-apply

Unit rvice could not be found.įailed to start rvice: Unit rvice not found. How do you start or stop IP Tables service iptables status

Restart iptables