From: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
To: Tomer Eliyahu <tomereliyahu1@gmail.com>
Cc: netfilter-devel <netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Question regarding iptables-nftables compatibility layer with libiptc
Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2014 16:01:19 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20141215150119.GA3506@salvia> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CA+eXE3yHB3WWrxzXNLrWD-YAO5=YnBP8s2Zke3_cjaFzdg9wUA@mail.gmail.com>
On Mon, Dec 15, 2014 at 04:33:59PM +0200, Tomer Eliyahu wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Regarding applications which use libiptc directly, such as openwrt's
> firewall package - does the iptables-nftables compatibility layer
> support translating libiptc calls to nftables calls?
No.
> If not - is there any plan to add such support or should every such
> application be upgraded for nftables support?
No plans to support that. Unfortunately that library was not ever
intended to be a public library:
http://www.netfilter.org/documentation/FAQ/netfilter-faq-4.html#ss4.5
The official public interface so far is iptables-restore.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-12-15 14:58 UTC|newest]
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2014-12-15 14:33 Question regarding iptables-nftables compatibility layer with libiptc Tomer Eliyahu
2014-12-15 15:01 ` Pablo Neira Ayuso [this message]
2014-12-15 19:24 ` Tomer Eliyahu
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