Re: stretch vs iptables auto-start

[deloptes <deloptes@gmail.com>]

Gene Heskett wrote:

> At the present time I have around 80 rules, all designed to deny the
> network spiders and bots that think they have to mirror my several
> giga-byte site, 2 or 3 times a day.  And that was eating up my bandwidth
> allocation on a slow net connection.
> 
> Is there a tut someplace to guide one in converting from iptables to this
> newer nftables? I'm assumeing its a similar utility.

Sure, but I have not looked into ... I only read there will be a couple of
years transition period and somehow a compatibility layer is or can be
used.

Perhaps someone more in this can gives us a detail or a hint to a good
tutorial