Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Tom H <tomh0665@×××××.com>
To: Gentoo User <gentoo-user@l.g.o>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Best *SIMPLE* firewall?
Date: Sun, 04 Mar 2018 01:23:08
Message-Id: CAOdo=SzdG3F97ib-9kJePEozZturG2X6LRYtMaz6jbKRyaT9kw@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Best *SIMPLE* firewall? by Walter Dnes
1 On Sat, Mar 3, 2018 at 7:55 PM, Walter Dnes <waltdnes@××××××××.org> wrote:
2 > On Wed, Feb 28, 2018 at 04:40:37PM -0700, Grant Taylor wrote
3 >> On 02/28/2018 02:15 PM, Walter Dnes wrote:
4 >>>
5 >>> Is there something besides iptables?
6 >>
7 >> nftables
8 >
9 > Assuming I just want filtering, could I emerge nftables and unmerge
10 > iptables and have a functional firewall?
11
12 nftables is a replacement of iptables. It's not less featureful.
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14 https://wiki.nftables.org/wiki-nftables/index.php/Why_nftables%3F
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16 [ You'll have to learn a new runtime and config-file syntax ]