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From: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
Subject: Re: Question regarding iptables-nftables compatibility layer with
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Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2014 16:01:19 +0100
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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.