The return of nftables

At first nftables chugged along (it was presented on the workshop as early as 2008, corbet!) until I pushed for early merging of a nextgen packetfilter (which happened to be xt2 code, but that is not the point), in the style of btrfs. But the powers that be wanted rather complete implementations instead. Doable, tho...

With NFWS 2013, everybody (especially new contributors) sided with nftables by way of submitting many patches there. xt2 got no support and has been rendered incompetetive too, with nft taking up and reimplementing ideas I had for xt2. That situation is very discouraging.

I temporarily work on more rewarding projects.