nf_tables
nf_tables
Posted May 8, 2026 15:02 UTC (Fri) by sashal (✭ supporter ✭, #81842)In reply to: nf_tables by 5fdb1f
Parent article: killswitch for short-term emergency vulnerability mitigation
This is very usecase dependent. On my laptop (running debian), for example, nothing uses nf_tables right now.
Would some packages and usecases break if I we killswitch nf_tables? sure.
Would it affect my current day-to-day work? nope.
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