• Packet filtering is crucial for securing systems and managing network traffic. Lets look into ‘nftables’ as the replacement for the iptables.
  • 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. ... What value does nftables provide?
  • Example: Fully trace evaluation of nftables rules. table ip traceall { chain filter_prerouting { #. Install chain with higher priority as the RAW standard priority.
  • 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...
  • Monitor nftables firewall metrics for efficient network security and management. Metrics are gathered by periodically sending HTTP requests to nftables_exporter.
  • nftables is configured via the user-space utility nft, while legacy tools are configured via the utilities iptables, ip6tables, arptables and ebtables frameworks.
  • Welcome to the nftables HOWTO documentation page. Here you will find documentation on how to build, install, configure and use nftables.
  • This document is between a dirty howto and a cheat sheet. For a short description of some interesting nftables features, you can read Why you will love nftables.
  • nftables is a framework by the Netfilter Project that provides packet filtering, network address translation (NAT) and other packet mangling.