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Xtables2 vs. nftables

Posted Jan 10, 2013 17:03 UTC (Thu) by nix (subscriber, #2304)
Parent article: Xtables2 vs. nftables

the older code can be removed

What? No! I would very strongly recommend against breaking everyone's firewalls yet again, no matter what the provocation. Absolutely everyone is sick of it.

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Posted Jan 10, 2013 17:18 UTC (Thu) by andresfreund (subscriber, #69562) [Link]

>> the older code can be removed
> What? No! I would very strongly recommend against breaking everyone's firewalls yet again, no matter what the provocation. Absolutely everyone is sick of it.

I think that was just referring to the original netfilter code *after* the introduction of a compatibility layer.

Xtables2 vs. nftables

Posted Jan 10, 2013 20:17 UTC (Thu) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]

Ah. I thought it was talking about the removal of the compatibility layer...