I guess that those tools will be there for a while anyway, as many scripts were written for those tools and the distro builders / util writers cannot expect everyone to always change to the latest and the greatest. Just like yum is still running on the latest Red Hat, although it now wraps around the actual dnf utility. JFM On Mon, May 26, 2025 at 10:18 AM Richard Guy Briggs via linux < linux [ at ] linux-ottawa [ dot ] org> wrote: > 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 > > slainte mhath, RGB > > -- > Richard Guy Briggs -- ~\ -- ~\ < > hpv.tricolour.ca> > <www.TriColour.ca> -- \___ o \@ @ Ride yer > bike! > Ottawa, ON, CANADA -- Lo_>__M__\\/\%__\\/\% > Vote! -- <greenparty.ca > >_____GTVS6#790__(*)__(*)________(*)(*)_________________ > > To unsubscribe send a blank message to linux+unsubscribe [ at ] linux-ottawa [ dot ] org > To get help send a blank message to linux+help [ at ] linux-ottawa [ dot ] org > To visit the archives: https://lists.linux-ottawa.org > >