From: Jordan Glover <Golden_Miller83@protonmail.ch>
To: "Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@zx2c4.com>
Cc: "jwollrath@web.de" <jwollrath@web.de>,
"wireguard@lists.zx2c4.com" <wireguard@lists.zx2c4.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] wg-quick: linux: add support for nft and prefer it
Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2019 17:05:44 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <G4y-P2Nndjy1FeZWH6oDZqfhtvl23C4Ezs4x1oZIpieVeppTVu15YYim4wvpIo7LQJrVgmTV8IjnGCKScyTAGUjheEol0zr0n-pot3AJKik=@protonmail.ch> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAHmME9pdqq23OXNPHLT-YyXCKTVTKJNyfz9D+Q0jADAN=BDhnA@mail.gmail.com>
On Tuesday, December 10, 2019 4:54 PM, Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@zx2c4.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 10, 2019 at 5:52 PM Jordan Glover
> Golden_Miller83@protonmail.ch wrote:
>
> > On Tuesday, December 10, 2019 3:48 PM, Jason A. Donenfeld Jason@zx2c4.com wrote:
> >
> > > If nft(8) is installed, use it. These rules should be identical to the
> > > iptables-restore(8) ones, with the advantage that cleanup is easy
> > > because we use custom table names.
> >
> > I wonder if nft should be used only if iptables isn't installed instead.
> > Nowadays iptables has nft backend which I believe is default and will
> > translate iptables rules to nft automatically. On my system iptables rules
> > from wg-quck are already shown in "nft list ruleset".
> > I'm not sure if this work in reverse - are nft rules automatically translated
> > to iptables and shown in iptables-save? If not then using iptables of available
> > seems more versatile for the job.
>
> iptables rules and nftables rules can co-exist just fine, without any
> translation needed. Indeed if your iptables is symlinked to
> iptables-nft, then you'll insert nftables rules when you try to insert
> iptables rules, but it really doesn't matter much either way (AFAIK).
> I figured I'd prefer nftables over iptables if available because I
> presume, without any metrics, that nftables is probably faster and
> slicker or something.
As I said before, my concern is more about people being fully aware of state
of their firewall rather than if it technically works.
Jordan
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-12-10 17:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-12-10 15:48 Jason A. Donenfeld
2019-12-10 16:52 ` Jordan Glover
2019-12-10 16:54 ` Jason A. Donenfeld
2019-12-10 17:05 ` Jordan Glover [this message]
2019-12-10 17:11 ` Jason A. Donenfeld
2019-12-10 17:12 ` Roman Mamedov
2019-12-10 17:28 ` Davide Depau
2019-12-10 17:33 ` Matthias Urlichs
2019-12-10 17:36 ` Jason A. Donenfeld
2019-12-10 18:00 ` Roman Mamedov
2019-12-10 18:58 ` Jordan Glover
2019-12-10 19:15 ` Jason A. Donenfeld
2019-12-10 20:30 ` Jordan Glover
2019-12-10 20:34 ` Jason A. Donenfeld
2019-12-10 21:56 ` Vasili Pupkin
2019-12-10 22:09 ` Jason A. Donenfeld
2019-12-10 22:27 ` Vasili Pupkin
2019-12-12 11:21 ` Jason A. Donenfeld
2019-12-10 17:31 ` Vasili Pupkin
2019-12-10 17:38 ` Jason A. Donenfeld
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