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Re: Looking for iptables deep dive tutorial

On 2025-05-26 14:10, Bryan Larsen via linux wrote:
> On Sun, May 25, 2025 at 3:31 PM Michael P. Soulier via linux <linux [ at ] linux-ottawa [ dot ] org> wrote:
> > Don't bother. Jump to nftables. iptables is deprecated.
> 
> A little while ago it looked like bptables (bpf-iptables) was going to
> replace nftables for some use cases.   Has that fizzled?   That's one
> reason I never bothered learning nftables -- all three support the
> iptables cli and rules, so that seemed the best to learn.   (Motivated
> reasoning -- I mostly already knew iptables).

My understanding was that the iptables library support for nftables
syscalls was a transition tool with a limited lifespan.

(I think the iptables kernel I/F is deprecated.)

> Bryan

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