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Re: What is the best practice for a firewall for Debian Buster: iptables or nftables?

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Personally I'd learn nf_tables because that's the way forward and if you
stick to it's CLI then the better.

I found this on github: https://github.com/larsbs/nftablui but i havn't
used it myself so maybe it could be of use to you?

Regards

Ben Lavender

On Sat, 20 Jun 2020, 15:25 Tom Browder, <tom.browder@gmail.com> wrote:

> I see it's recommended that Buster users use nftables, but the default
> installation still uses iptables!
>
> I need to change ports on my new remote server to allow http and https
> traffic, but should I keep using iptables? Or should I remove iptables
> and install nftables first?
>
> If I keep iptables, should I add a firewall management program like
> ufw or something else?  Is there something like ufw for nftables?
>
> Thanks.
>
> Best regards,
>
> -Tom
>
>

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What is the best practice for a firewall for Debian Buster: iptables  or nftables? Tom Browder <tom.browder@gmail.com> - 2020-06-20 16:30 +0200
  Re: What is the best practice for a firewall for Debian Buster:  iptables  or nftables? l0f4r0@tuta.io - 2020-06-20 17:50 +0200
    Re: What is the best practice for a firewall for Debian Buster:  iptables or nftables? Tom Browder <tom.browder@gmail.com> - 2020-06-20 21:40 +0200
      Re: What is the best practice for a firewall for Debian Buster:  iptables or nftables? Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> - 2020-06-20 22:20 +0200
  Re: What is the best practice for a firewall for Debian Buster:  iptables or nftables? Ben Lavender <ben@airnet.org.uk> - 2020-06-20 19:50 +0200
    Re: What is the best practice for a firewall for Debian Buster:  iptables or nftables? Tom Browder <tom.browder@gmail.com> - 2020-06-20 21:40 +0200

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