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What happened to this project? Still no news? 87.217.10.211 ( talk) 07:42, 2 May 2010 (UTC)
Introduction: "nftables is an engine and utility program" Is it just a utility program like iptables, or is it a software comprising a utility program AND some engine code? ScotXW ( talk) 09:48, 22 October 2013 (UTC)
Conforming to Linux User Magazine germany, among the differences to netfilter are:
For netfilter there is File:Netfilter-components.svg, the code works on top of the network stack and there is a lot of code duplication between the different modules (ipv4, ipv6, arp and eb). Something similar would be nice for nftables. User:ScotXW t@lk 11:41, 18 April 2015 (UTC)
It appears that Extended Berkeley Packet Filter (eBPF) is going to be the new kernel infrastructure for building firewalls, not npt as previously planned:
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What happened to this project? Still no news? 87.217.10.211 ( talk) 07:42, 2 May 2010 (UTC)
Introduction: "nftables is an engine and utility program" Is it just a utility program like iptables, or is it a software comprising a utility program AND some engine code? ScotXW ( talk) 09:48, 22 October 2013 (UTC)
Conforming to Linux User Magazine germany, among the differences to netfilter are:
For netfilter there is File:Netfilter-components.svg, the code works on top of the network stack and there is a lot of code duplication between the different modules (ipv4, ipv6, arp and eb). Something similar would be nice for nftables. User:ScotXW t@lk 11:41, 18 April 2015 (UTC)
It appears that Extended Berkeley Packet Filter (eBPF) is going to be the new kernel infrastructure for building firewalls, not npt as previously planned: