Nft
Beginners guide to traffic filtering with nftables
The replacement of iptables is known as nftables. In this article, we learn to install nftables and configure it, to secure your Linux systems.
Summary
Learn how to use nftables in this introduction guide to the tool. With common examples, frequently asked questions, and generic tips.
Exporting nftables rules and configuration
Nftables has an easy way to export firewall rules via the nft command line utility. Let's discover the options.
Summary
The usage of nftables will slowly grow in the upcoming years, with the goal to become the successor of iptables. Where iptables rules are harder to parse, nftables comes by default with an exporting facility. Exports formats include JSON and XML.
Command syntax
When using the command line utility nft for the first time, it looks a little bit unfriendly to the user. No suggestions on what to do, nor clear help on often used commands. To save you some time, we will look into nftables and document them for easy access later on. We are sure the utilities of nftables, with nft in particular, will get some work in the upcoming releases.