Now, let's turn our attention to nftables, the new kid on the block. So, what does nftables bring to the table? (Yes, the pun was intended.):
- You can forget about needing separate daemons and utilities for all of the different networking components. The functionality of iptables, ip6tables, ebtables, and arptables is now all combined in one neat package. The nft utility is now the only firewall utility that you'll need.
- With nftables, you can create multi-dimensional trees to display your rulesets. This makes troubleshooting vastly easier because it's now easier to trace a packet all the way through all of the rules.
- With iptables, you have the filter, NAT, mangle, and security tables installed by default, whether or not you use each one.
- With nftables, you only create the tables that you intend to use...