[CentOS] CentOS 8: what changed (regular UNIX admin commands)?

Jonathan Billings
2019-10-23T20:32:19Z

On Oct 22, 2019, at 15:04, Chris Adams <linux at cmadams.net>
wrote:
>
> firewalld is not really the same thing as iptables though; it's more of
> a management layer on top of just writing raw rules.  One big issue I
> have though is that firewalld always sets up kernel connection state
> tracking, which is not a good thing for some uses (high-traffic DNS
> servers for example).

One major change is that the Firewalld in el8 doesn?t use ?iptables? rules
(netfilter) but instead ?nft? rules (nftables).

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Jonathan Billings