On Sat, Mar 3, 2018 at 7:55 PM, Walter Dnes <waltd...@waltdnes.org> wrote: > On Wed, Feb 28, 2018 at 04:40:37PM -0700, Grant Taylor wrote >> On 02/28/2018 02:15 PM, Walter Dnes wrote: >>> >>> Is there something besides iptables? >> >> nftables > > Assuming I just want filtering, could I emerge nftables and unmerge > iptables and have a functional firewall?
nftables is a replacement of iptables. It's not less featureful. https://wiki.nftables.org/wiki-nftables/index.php/Why_nftables%3F [ You'll have to learn a new runtime and config-file syntax ]