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NFTables IPTables-Replacement Queued For Linux 3.13

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Phoronix; By Michael Larabel 		Mail this story
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NFTables is a new firewall subsystem / packet filtering engine for the Linux kernel that is poised to replace iptables. NFTables has been in development for several years by the upstream author of Netfilter. This new nftables system is set to be merged now into the Linux 3.13 kernel.

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