diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index b0cda86679..24521bc78f 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,13 @@
+Thu Jan 10 13:54:10 GMT 2008 Mark McLoughlin <markmc@redhat.com>
+
+	--with-iptables-prefix was added to integrate with
+	a proposed system for letting iptables know how to
+	reload our rules. The proposed system wasn't accepted
+	so, although there might be some other theoretical
+	use for this, let's just remove it.
+
+	* configure.in, src/iptables.c: remove --with-iptables-prefix
+
 Thu Jan 10 13:52:05 GMT 2008 Mark McLoughlin <markmc@redhat.com>
 
 	Add support for integrating our iptables support with
diff --git a/configure.in b/configure.in
index fe36718fb0..cd1a4119fb 100644
--- a/configure.in
+++ b/configure.in
@@ -182,16 +182,6 @@ fi
 AM_CONDITIONAL(LIBVIRT_INIT_SCRIPTS_RED_HAT, test x$with_init_scripts = xredhat)
 AC_MSG_RESULT($with_init_scripts)
 
-dnl
-dnl allow the creation of iptables rules in chains with a
-dnl specific prefix rather than in the standard toplevel chains
-dnl
-AC_ARG_WITH(iptables-prefix,
-            AC_HELP_STRING([--with-iptables-prefix=prefix],
-                           [prefix used for iptables chains, default is to use standard toplevel chains]),
-            [IPTABLES_PREFIX=$withval])
-AC_DEFINE_UNQUOTED(IPTABLES_PREFIX, "$IPTABLES_PREFIX", [prefix used for iptables chains])
-
 dnl
 dnl also support saving the various chains to files
 dnl in e.g. /etc/sysconfig/iptables.d
diff --git a/src/iptables.c b/src/iptables.c
index 21363ba1a6..12013af1ce 100644
--- a/src/iptables.c
+++ b/src/iptables.c
@@ -592,13 +592,13 @@ iptablesContextNew(void)
     if (!(ctx = calloc(1, sizeof (*ctx))))
         return NULL;
 
-    if (!(ctx->input_filter = iptRulesNew("filter", IPTABLES_PREFIX "INPUT")))
+    if (!(ctx->input_filter = iptRulesNew("filter", "INPUT")))
         goto error;
 
-    if (!(ctx->forward_filter = iptRulesNew("filter", IPTABLES_PREFIX "FORWARD")))
+    if (!(ctx->forward_filter = iptRulesNew("filter", "FORWARD")))
         goto error;
 
-    if (!(ctx->nat_postrouting = iptRulesNew("nat", IPTABLES_PREFIX "POSTROUTING")))
+    if (!(ctx->nat_postrouting = iptRulesNew("nat", "POSTROUTING")))
         goto error;
 
     return ctx;