alt Hacker NewsComing from FreeBSD and pf, all Linux firewalls I’ve tried feels clunky _at best_ UX-wise.
I’d love a Linux firewall configured with a sane config file and I think BSD really nailed it. It’s easy to configure and still human readable, even for more advanced firewall gateway setups with many interfaces/zones.
A have no doubt that Linux can do all the same stuff feature-wise, but oh god the UX :/
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ptman • last Thursday at 8:32 AM
nftables is configured like that https://wiki.nftables.org/wiki-nftables/index.php/Simple_rul...
Hendrikto • last Thursday at 8:41 AM
Have you tried nftables? It is so much nicer than iptables.
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I completely agree.
I have been using for many decades both Linux and FreeBSD, on many kinds of computers.
When comparing Linux with FreeBSD, I probably do not find anything more annoying on Linux than its networking configuration tools.
While I am using Linux on my laptops and desktops and on some servers with computational purposes, on the servers that host networking services I much prefer FreeBSD, for the ease of administration.