Back when iptables was first made the default, there were
theoretically some users who wouldn't have been able to support it due
to having an old /sbin/iptables. But kube-proxy no longer does the
things that didn't work with old iptables, and we removed that check a
long time ago. There is also a check for a new-enough kernel version,
but it's checking for a feature which was added in kernel 3.6, and no
one could possibly be running Kubernetes with a kernel that old. So
the fallback code now never actually falls back, so it should just be
removed.
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