[Ferm] migrating from ferm to nftables, will there be nftables-ferm?

Auke Kok sofar at foo-projects.org
Tue Sep 10 07:00:14 CEST 2019


On 9/9/19 01:45, Marc Haber wrote:
> Looks like project and mailing list are dead?
>
>
> On Sun, Jul 14, 2019 at 09:24:11PM +0200, Marc Haber wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> things have become quiet around ferm and around this list, Debian now
>> has nftables in stable, and I am wondering where to proceed. Migrating
>> from ferm to nftables doesn't look to hard since the syntax looks
>> sufficiently similiar, but ferm surely has more features than plain
>> nftables.
>>
>> (1)
>> stay with iptables and continue using ferm
>>
>> (2)
>> migrate to nftables, losing some convenience in the future
>>
>> (3)
>> hope for a future ferm-nftables
>>
>> What would you do?


Sort of. Both Max and me have plenty of things on our plate and this is 
likely not that difficult for someone to pick up and chew out. If anyone 
is interested, please ask. We'll keep things from rotting, though, as 
much as we can.

Auke




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