• Here’s how you can do it: sudo nano /etc/nftables.conf. After doing changes, it is good to restart the nftables sudo systemctl restart nftables sudo nft list ruleset.
  • While nftables change the command-line syntax, it maintains a compatibility layer that allows you to run iptables commands over the nftables kernel.
  • nftables is the successor of iptables, it allows for much more flexible, scalable and performance packet classification.
  • Nftables, basically, is a replacement for and successor to iptables that is a packet-filtering program like nftables for Linux to define rules for filtering and logging...
  • On 16 October 2013, Pablo Neira Ayuso submitted a nftables core pull request to the Linux kernel mainline tree.[13]...
  • There are various expressions available in nftables and, for the most part, coincide with their iptables counterparts.
  • Example: Fully trace evaluation of nftables rules.
  • In the end, I found out that the th parameter requires both nftables 0.92 and Linux Kernnel 5.3.
  • Metrics are gathered by periodically sending HTTP requests to nftables_exporter.