4 engineers on Hacker News describe using nftables first-hand: 1 endorse it, 1 regret it, 0 are mixed.
“We migrated to a linux nftables based firewall. I never liked iptables, but nftables is pretty nice to write and use.”
endorse · production · guerby · 2025-11-24 · source ↗ · wrong label?“upstream nftables parsing bug (I knew in advance that nftables is for adventurous people)”
regret · personal · 7 yr · mananaysiempre · 2022-11-02 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Added a temporary rule when we encounter a syn-flood. [1]”
neutral · production · Bender · 2025-12-17 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've worked with both and finished my Vim syntax highlighters down to the keywords.”
neutral · personal · egberts1 · 2025-10-11 · source ↗ · wrong label?