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Date: Sat, 24 May 2014 20:42:16 +0200
From: Der Tiger <der.tiger.alpine@arcor.de>
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Subject: [alpine-devel] Alpine Wall and NFTables
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Hi,

While there is certainly nothing decided, yet, there have been
indications {2,3}, that iptables and ip6tables may be replaced by
nftables {1} sometime in the future. nftables is already part of the
kernel, but still under development. It is a likely candidate to become
the kernel devs-team favoured packet filter and the then obsolete
ip*tables victim of a code clean-up, even though this is probably years
of time away.

How will the (possible) change to nftables affect the development of
Alpine Wall?
Are there plans to make Alpine Wall compatible with nftables, once the
development of nftables has progressed enough?

Cheers, Tiger

{1} http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nftables
{2}
http://kernelnewbies.org/Linux_3.13#head-f628a9c41d7ec091f7a62db6a49b8da50659ec88
{3} http://beta.slashdot.org/story/193183


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