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From: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
Subject: Re: [libnftnl] documentation?
Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2020 10:45:29 +0100
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Frank Myhr <fmyhr@fhmtech.com> wrote:
> On 2020/03/26 04:38, ѽ҉ᶬḳ℠ wrote:
> > Been trying to find some documentation in these places:
> > 
> > * https://netfilter.org/projects/libnftnl/
> > * https://www.netfilter.org/documentation/
> > * https://git.netfilter.org/libnftnl/tree/
> > *
> > https://wiki.nftables.org/wiki-nftables/index.php/Portal:DeveloperDocs/nftables_internals
> > 
> > 
> > but either I missed it - and thus appreciate a pointer - or there is none?
> > 
> > The aim/goal is to utilise libnftnl with json.
> 
> Do these help you?:
> https://git.netfilter.org/nftables/tree/doc/libnftables.adoc
> https://git.netfilter.org/nftables/tree/doc/libnftables-json.adoc
> 
> AFAIK libnftnl=libnftables, the older name just persists (confusingly) in
> many places.

No, these are different libraries. libnftnl is a standalone library
with low-level helpers.

libnftables is the highlevel library, its part of nftables itself.

libnftables contains the ruleset parser, for example.