Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE]: First release of nftables

From: Varun Chandramohan <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 18 Mar 2009 15:43:26 +0530

Patrick McHardy wrote:
> Andi Kleen wrote:
>   
>> Patrick McHardy <[email-masked]> writes:
>>   
>>     
>>> The userspace frontend is probably even more different to iptables than
>>> the kernel.
>>>     
>>>       
>> Are there plans to implement the existing iptables/ipchains/ipfw user
>> interfaces on top of nftables?
>>   
>>     
>
> I've thought about a "skin" in userspace to parse the iptables syntax
> and convert it to the new syntax. But the kernel won't have a compatibility
> interface and I'm not sure yet whether userspace will also be able to output
> iptables syntax. ipchains etc. definitely not.
>
>   
So, in that case if you are not going to provide a "skin" and that 
iptables will be removed eventually. wouldnt it break applications using 
iptables?
Sorry for such a basic question, but just curious.
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