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Re: default firewall utility changes for Debian 11 bullseye



On Wed, 17 Jul 2019, Stephan Seitz wrote:

> On Di, Jul 16, 2019 at 11:23:43 +0200, Guillem Jover wrote:
> > On Tue, 2019-07-16 at 11:07:15 +0200, Arturo Borrero Gonzalez wrote:
> > > as you may know, Debian 10 buster includes the iptables-nft utility by
> > > default, which is an iptables flavor that uses the nf_tables kernel
> > > subsystem. Is intended to help people migrate from iptables to nftables.
> > Yeah, this was a great way to migrate, thanks!
> 
> What is the problem with using iptables-nft compared to the new nft syntax?
> 
> According to the documentation nft seems quite more complex.
> What would be the replacement for a simple single line like
> iptables -I INPUT -j DROP -s <ip>  -p tcp –dport 587 ?
> 
> What about other packages like fail2ban? Does it „hurt” if different
> programs are using iptables-nft or nft?
> 
The thing you want to avoid is mixing nft with iptables-legacy. iptables-nft
and nft should be fine.

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