On 10/24/18 9:18 AM, Vincas Dargis wrote: > Hi, > > During today's batch of Debian Sid updates I was notified about this > iptables change: > > ``` > iptables (1.8.1-1) unstable; urgency=medium > > By default, this package will try to use the nf_tables kernel backend > instead of the xtables one. Please, read more about this in > /usr/share/doc/iptables/README.Debian, including details about the new > update-alternatives configuration possibilities. > This is a major update on the way iptables works and may have severe > impact > in running systems which are upgrading between Debian versions. > The arptables and ebtables binaries are also affected, and those > packages > will be updated soon as well. > > -- Arturo Borrero Gonzalez <[email protected]> Wed, 24 Oct 2018 > 14:00:00 +0200 > ``` > > What does that mean with regards to Shorewall? Could there potentially > be incompatibilities on how Shorewall expects Linux firewall to behave? > > I am running Shorewall on my home Sid machine, and I don't see immediate > breakage, though it runs only for an hour maybe. >
There could certainly be incompatibilities that effect Shorewall and/or Shorewall6. -Tom -- Tom Eastep \ Q: What do you get when you cross a mobster with Shoreline, \ an international standard? Washington, USA \ A: Someone who makes you an offer you can't http://shorewall.org \ understand \_______________________________________________
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