http://lwn.net/Articles/564095/
advantages independent of performance. At the top of the list is removing all of the protocol awareness from the decision engine, allowing a single implementation to serve everywhere a packet inspection engine is required. The protocol awareness and associated intelligence can, instead, be pushed out to user space.
Nftables also offers an improved user-space API that allows the atomic replacement of one or more rules with a single netlink transaction. That will speed up firewall changes for sites with large rulesets; it can also help to avoid race conditions while the rule change is being executed.
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http://home.regit.org/netfilter-en/nftables-quick-howto/
modprobe nft_chain_nat_ipv6 (中略) table ip6 nat { chain postrouting { type nat hook postrouting priority -150; ip6 saddr 2::/64 snat 1::3; } }
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