Re: What is the best practice for a firewall for Debian Buster: iptables or nftables?

[Ben Lavender <ben@airnet.org.uk>]

Personally I'd learn nf_tables because that's the way forward and if you stick to it's CLI then the better.

I found this on github: https://github.com/larsbs/nftablui but i havn't used it myself so maybe it could be of use to you?

Regards

Ben Lavender

On Sat, 20 Jun 2020, 15:25 Tom Browder, <tom.browder@gmail.com> wrote:

I see it's recommended that Buster users use nftables, but the default
installation still uses iptables!

I need to change ports on my new remote server to allow http and https
traffic, but should I keep using iptables? Or should I remove iptables
and install nftables first?

If I keep iptables, should I add a firewall management program like
ufw or something else?  Is there something like ufw for nftables?

Thanks.

Best regards,

-Tom