nftables
Arturo Borrero Gonzalez <[email protected]> Mon, 28 Oct 2013 12:32:01 +0100
| Newsgroups | gmane.linux.debian.devel.firewall |
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| Message-ID | <CAOkSjBh9eAdxvDkHtx_0HQMTJ_e=STKhfNatAV969d81kGE8sw@mail.gmail.com> |
Hi there! as maybe you already know, nftables has been merged into linux, scheduled for release with kernel 3.13 [0]. There is a how-to [1] to test it. nftables includes a compatibility layer, that allows a painless migration from iptables to nftables. nftables also features an API, called libnftables [2]. This API adds some interesting features to build other apps in top of it. This software is a major upgrade in the Linux world, and I think that when the times arrives, Debian should adapt to nftables. I haven't heard any word in Debian about nftables, so I just wanted to comment it here, I case you missed something. Best regards. [0] http://marc.info/?l=netfilter-devel&m=138176887917614&w=2 [1] https://home.regit.org/netfilter-en/nftables-quick-howto/ [2] http://git.netfilter.org/libnftables -- Arturo Borrero González