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Nftables: a new packet filtering engine

Nftables: a new packet filtering engine

Posted Apr 2, 2009 10:39 UTC (Thu) by jengelh (subscriber, #33263)
In reply to: Nftables: a new packet filtering engine by osma
Parent article: Nftables: a new packet filtering engine

>after editing the ruleset file, the pfctl tool can be used to do a live update of the kernel ruleset without e.g. breaking existing connections

You can do the same with iptables-restore.


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