[arch-dev-public] Dropping arptables/ebtables

Sébastien Luttringer seblu at seblu.net
Tue Apr 13 11:05:20 UTC 2021


On Fri, 2020-12-11 at 10:28 +0100, Sébastien Luttringer wrote:
> The future in the linux kernel is clearly nftables and keeping them in the
> repository present is of little interest these days.
> 
> If you have spare time, I suggest you take a look at the nftable package and
> become a master in nft-fu. It is much more convenient and efficient than the
> iptables / ipset / ebtables / arptables solution. For the less enthusiastic
> about the command line, firewalld has an nftables backend.
> 

For the same motivations and [1], I plan to move ferm to [unsupported].

Regards,

[1] https://github.com/MaxKellermann/ferm/issues/35

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Sébastien "Seblu" Luttringer

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