fication.
      - Address can be either a network name, a hostname, a network IP address
        (with /mask), or a plain IP address.
      - Hostnames will be resolved once only, before the rule is submitted to
        the kernel. Please note that specifying any name to be resolved with
        a remote query such as DNS is a really bad idea.
      - The mask can be either a network mask or a plain number, specifying
        the number of 1's at the left side of the network mask. Thus, a mask
        of 24 is equivalent to 255.255.255.0. A C(!) argument before the
        address specification inverts the sense of the address.
    type: str
  tcp_flags:
    description:
      - TCP flags specification.
      - C(tcp_flags) expects a dict with the two keys C(flags) and C(flags_set).
    type: dict
    version_added: "2.4"
    suboptions:
        flags:
            description:
                - List of flags you want to examine.
            type: list
            elements: str
        flags_set:
            description:
                - Flags to be set.
            type: list
            elements: str
  match:
    description:
      - Specifies a match to use, that is, an extension module that tests for
        a specific property.
      - The set of matches make up the condition under which a target is invoked.
      - Matches are evaluated first to last if specified as an array and work in short-circuit
        fashion, i.e. if one extension yields false, evaluation will stop.
    type: list
    elements: str
    default: []
  jump:
    description:
      - This specifies the target of the rule; i.e., what to do if the packet matches it.
      - The target can be a user-defined chain (other than the one
        this rule is in), one of the special builtin targets which decide the
        fate of the packet immediately, or an extension (see EXTENSIONS
        below).
      - If this option is omitted in a rule (and the goto parameter
        is not used), then matching the rule will have no effect on the
        packet's fate, but the counters on the rule will be incremented.
    type: str
  gateway:
    description:
      - This specifies the IP address of host to send the cloned packets.
      - This option is only valid when C(jump) is set to C(TEE).
    type: str
    version_added: "2.8"
  log_prefix:
    description:
      - Specifies a log text for the rule. Only make sense with a LOG jump.
    type: str
    version_added: "2.5"
  log_level:
    description:
      - Logging level according to the syslogd-defined priorities.
      - The value can be strings or numbers from 1-8.
      - This parameter is only applicable if C(jump) is set to C(LOG).
    type: str
    version_added: "2.8"
    choices: [ '0', '1', '2', '3', '4', '5', '6', '7', 'emerg', 'alert', 'crit', 'error', 'warning', 'notice', 'info', 'debug' ]
  goto:
    description:
      - This specifies that the processing should continue in a user specified chain.
      - Unlike the jump argument return will not continue processing in
        this chain but instead in the chain that called us via jump.
    type: str
  in_interface:
    description:
      - Name of an interface via which a packet was received (only for packets
        entering the C(INPUT), C(FORWARD) and C(PREROUTING) chains).
      - When the C(!) argument is used before the interface name, the sense is inverted.
      - If the interface name ends in a C(+), then any interface which begins with
        this name will match.
      - If this option is omitted, any interface name will match.
    type: str
  out_interface:
    description:
      - Name of an interface via which a packet is going to be sent (for
        packets entering the C(FORWARD), C(OUTPUT) and C(POSTROUTING) chains).
      - When the C(!) argument is used before the interface name, the sense is inverted.
      - If the interface name ends in a C(+), then any interface which begins
        with this name will match.
      - If this option is omitted, any interface name will match.
    type: str
  fragment:
    description:
      - This means that the rule only refers to second and further fragments
        of fragmented packets.
      - Since there is no way to tell the source or destination ports of such
        a packet (or ICMP type), such a packet will not match any rules which specify them.
      - When the "!" argument precedes fragment argument, the rule will only match head fragments,
        or unfragmented packets.
    type: str
  set_counters:
    description:
      - This enables the administrator to initialize the packet and byte
        counters of a rule (during C(INSERT), C(APPEND), C(REPLACE) operations).
    type: str
  source_port:
    description:
      - Source port or port range specification.
      - This can either be a service name or a port number.
      - An inclusive range can also be specified, using the format C(first:last).
      - If the first port is omitted, C(0) is assumed; if the last is omitted, C(65535) is assumed.
      - If the first port is greater than the second one they will be swapped.
    type: str
  destination_port:
    description:
      - "Destination port or port range specification. This can either be
        a service name or a port number. An inclusive range can also be
        specified, using the format first:last. If the first port is omitted,
        '0' is assumed; if the last is omitted, '65535' is assumed. If the
        first port is greater than the second one they will be swapped.
        This is only valid if the rule also specifies one of the following
        protocols: tcp, udp, dccp or sctp."
    type: str
  destination_ports:
    description:
      - This specifies multiple destination port numbers or port ranges to match in the multiport module.
      - It can only be used in conjunction with the protocols tcp, udp, udplite, dccp and sctp.
    type: list
    elements: str
    default: []
    version_added: "2.11"
  to_ports:
    description:
      - This specifies a destination port or range of ports to use, without
        this, the destination port is never altered.
      - This is only valid if the rule also specifies one of the protocol
        C(tcp), C(udp), C(dccp) or C(sctp).
    type: str
  to_destination:
    description:
      - This specifies a destination address to use with C(DNAT).
      - Without this, the destination address is never altered.
    type: str
    version_added: "2.1"
  to_source:
    description:
      - This specifies a source address to use with C(SNAT).
      - Without this, the source address is never altered.
    type: str
    version_added: "2.2"
  syn:
    description:
      - This allows matching packets that have the SYN bit set and the ACK
        and RST bits unset.
      - When negated, this matches all packets with the RST or the ACK bits set.
    type: str
    choices: [ ignore, match, negate ]
    default: ignore
    version_added: "2.5"
  set_dscp_mark:
    description:
      - This allows specifying a DSCP mark to be added to packets.
        It takes either an integer or hex value.
      - Mutually exclusive with C(set_dscp_mark_class).
    type: str
    version_added: "2.1"
  set_dscp_mark_class:
    description:
      - This allows specifying a predefined DiffServ class which will be
        translated to the corresponding DSCP mark.
      - Mutually exclusive with C(set_dscp_mark).
    type: str
    version_added: "2.1"
  comment:
    description:
      - This specifies a comment that will be added to the rule.
    type: str
  ctstate:
    description:
      - A list of the connection states to match in the conntrack module.
      - Possible values are C(INVALID), C(NEW), C(ESTABLISHED), C(RELATED), C(UNTRACKED), C(SNAT), C(DNAT).
    type: list
    elements: str
    default: []
  src_range:
    description:
      - Specifies the source IP range to match in the iprange module.
    type: str
    version_added: "2.8"
  dst_range:
    description:
      - Specifies the destination IP range to match in the iprange module.
    type: str
    version_added: "2.8"
  match_set:
    description:
      - Specifies a set name which can be defined by ipset.
      - Must be used together with the match_set_flags parameter.
      - When the C(!) argument is prepended then it inverts the rule.
      - Uses the iptables set extension.
    type: str
    version_added: "2.11"
  match_set_flags:
    description:
      - Specifies the necessary flags for the match_set parameter.
      - Must be used together with the match_set parameter.
      - Uses the iptables set extension.
    type: str
    choices: [ "src", "dst", "src,dst", "dst,src" ]
    version_added: "2.11"
  limit:
    description:
      - Specifies the maximum average number of matches to allow per second.
      - The number can specify units explicitly, using C(/second), C(/minute),
        C(/hour) or C(/day), or parts of them (so C(5/second) is the same as
        C(5/s)).
    type: str
  limit_burst:
    description:
      - Specifies the maximum burst before the above limit kicks in.
    type: str
    version_added: "2.1"
  uid_owner:
    description:
      - Specifies the UID or username to use in match by owner rule.
      - From Ansible 2.6 when the C(!) argument is prepended then the it inverts
        the rule to apply instead to all users except that one specified.
    type: str
    version_added: "2.1"
  gid_owner:
    description:
      - Specifies the GID or group to use in match by owner rule.
    type: str
    version_added: "2.9"
  reject_with:
    description:
      - 'Specifies the error packet type to return while rejecting. It implies
        "jump: REJECT".'
    type: str
    version_added: "2.1"
  icmp_type:
    description:
      - This allows specification of the ICMP type, which can be a numeric
        ICMP type, type/code pair, or one of the ICMP type names shown by the
        command 'iptables -p icmp -h'
    type: str
    version_added: "2.2"
  flush:
    description:
      - Flushes the specified table and chain of all rules.
      - If no chain is specified then the entire table is purged.
      - Ignores all other parameters.
    type: bool
    default: false
    version_added: "2.2"
  policy:
    description:
      - Set the policy for the chain to the given target.
      - Only built-in chains can have policies.
      - This parameter requires the C(chain) parameter.
      - If you specify this parameter, all other parameters will be ignored.
      - This parameter is used to set default policy for the given C(chain).
        Do not confuse this with C(jump) parameter.
    type: str
    choices: [ ACCEPT, DROP, QUEUE, RETURN ]
    version_added: "2.2"
  wait:
    description:
      - Wait N seconds for the xtables lock to prevent multiple instances of
        the program from running concurrently.
    type: str
    version_added: "2.10"
  chain_management:
    description:
      - If C(true) and C(state) is C(present), the chain will be created if needed.
      - If C(true) and C(state) is C(absent), the chain will be deleted if the only
        other parameter passed are C(chain) and optionally C(table).
    type: bool
    default: false
    version_added: "2.13"
  numeric:
    description:
      - This parameter controls the running of the list -action of iptables, which is used internally by the module
      - Does not affect the actual functionality. Use this if iptables hangs when creating chain or altering policy
      - If C(true), then iptables skips the DNS-lookup of the IP addresses in a chain when it uses the list -action
      - Listing is used internally for example when setting a policy or creting of a chain
    type: bool
    default: false
    version_added: "2.15"
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