netdev - Re: [ANNOUNCE]: First release of nftables

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Message-ID: <49C0C74A.1090709@trash.net>
Date:	Wed, 18 Mar 2009 11:04:58 +0100
From:	Patrick McHardy <kaber@...sh.net>
To:	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>
CC:	Netfilter Development Mailinglist 
	<netfilter-devel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Linux Netdev List <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE]: First release of nftables

Andi Kleen wrote:
> Patrick McHardy <kaber@...sh.net> writes:
>   
>> The userspace frontend is probably even more different to iptables than
>> the kernel.
>>     
>
> Are there plans to implement the existing iptables/ipchains/ipfw user
> interfaces on top of nftables?
>   

I've thought about a "skin" in userspace to parse the iptables syntax
and convert it to the new syntax. But the kernel won't have a compatibility
interface and I'm not sure yet whether userspace will also be able to output
iptables syntax. ipchains etc. definitely not.

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