Firewalld: The Future is nftables
Firewalld, the default firewall management tool in Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Fedora, has gained long sought support for nftables. This was announced in detail on firewalld’s project blog. The feature landed in the firewalld 0.6.0 release as the new default firewall backend.
The benefits of nftables have been outlined on the Red Hat Developer Blog:
- What comes after iptables? Its successor, of course: nftables
- Benchmarking nftables
- Migrating my iptables setup to nftables
There are many longstanding issues with firewalld that we can address with nftables that were not possible with the old iptables backend. The nftables backend allows the following improvements:
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