From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Patrick McHardy Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE]: First release of nftables Date: Wed, 18 Mar 2009 10:52:14 +0100 Message-ID: <49C0C44E.70702@trash.net> References: <49C078B6.4020603@trash.net> <49C0B093.7000908@trash.net> <20090318092039.GA2511@squirrel.roonstrasse.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Netfilter Development Mailinglist , Linux Netdev List , sofar@foo-projects.org To: Max Kellermann Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20090318092039.GA2511@squirrel.roonstrasse.net> Sender: netfilter-devel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org Max Kellermann wrote: > On 2009/03/18 09:28, Patrick McHardy wrote: > >> The rule snippets under tests/ pretty much all use obsolete syntax, >> so I'm attaching a test script (which doesn't make much sense, just >> testing features) so people can get a feeling for the syntax. >> > > Interesting, that looks very much like ferm's syntax: > > http://ferm.foo-projects.org/ > http://ferm.foo-projects.org/download/examples/webserver.ferm > http://ferm.foo-projects.org/download/examples/dsl_router.ferm > > (ferm is a popular frontend for iptables, developed in 2000 by Auke > Kok; I took over maintainership a few years ago) > Indeed, it looks pretty similar :) The function things is also something I wanted to add later on. Currently I'm looking for a nice syntax to declare, define and modify sets outside of rules. I'll have a look at your manual, maybe I can find something I like :)