diff --git a/config/iptables-mode-monitor.json b/config/iptables-mode-monitor.json
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+++ b/config/iptables-mode-monitor.json
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+{
+  "plugin": "custom",
+  "pluginConfig": {
+    "invoke_interval": "86400s",
+    "timeout": "5s",
+    "max_output_length": 80,
+    "concurrency": 1
+  },
+  "source": "iptables-mode-monitor",
+  "metricsReporting": true,
+  "conditions": [],
+  "rules": [
+    {
+      "type": "temporary",
+      "reason": "IPTablesVersionsMismatch",
+      "path": "./config/plugin/iptables_mode.sh",
+      "timeout": "5s"
+    }
+  ]
+}
diff --git a/config/plugin/iptables_mode.sh b/config/plugin/iptables_mode.sh
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+#!/bin/bash
+
+# As of iptables 1.8, the iptables command line clients come in two different versions/modes: "legacy",
+# which uses the kernel iptables API just like iptables 1.6 and earlier did, and "nft", which translates
+# the iptables command-line API into the kernel nftables API.
+# Because they connect to two different subsystems in the kernel, you cannot mix rules from different versions.
+# Ref: https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/iptables-wrappers
+
+readonly OK=0
+readonly NONOK=1
+readonly UNKNOWN=2
+
+# based on: https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/iptables-wrappers/blob/97b01f43a8e8db07840fc4b95e833a37c0d36b12/iptables-wrapper-installer.sh
+readonly num_legacy_lines=$( (iptables-legacy-save || true; ip6tables-legacy-save || true) 2>/dev/null | grep -c '^-' || true)
+readonly num_nft_lines=$( (timeout 5 sh -c "iptables-nft-save; ip6tables-nft-save" || true) 2>/dev/null | grep -c '^-' || true)
+
+
+if [ "$num_legacy_lines" -gt 0 ] && [ "$num_nft_lines" -gt 0 ]; then
+  echo "Found rules from both versions, iptables-legacy: ${num_legacy_lines} iptables-nft: ${num_nft_lines}"
+  echo $NONOK
+elif [ "$num_legacy_lines" -gt 0 ] && [ "$num_nft_lines" -eq 0 ]; then
+  echo "Using iptables-legacy: ${num_legacy_lines} rules"
+  echo $OK
+elif [ "$num_legacy_lines" -eq 0 ] && [ "$num_nft_lines" -gt 0 ]; then
+  echo "Using iptables-nft: ${num_nft_lines} rules"
+  echo $OK
+else
+  echo "No iptables rules found"
+  echo $UNKNOWN
+fi