These are the user-space administration tools for the linux kernel's netfilter and nftables. netfilter and nftables provide a framework for stateful and stateless packet filtering, network and port address translation, and other ip packet manipulation. the framework is the successor to iptables.

netfilter and nftables are used in applications such as internet connection sharing, firewalls, ip accounting, transparent proxying, advanced routing and traffic control.

a linux kernel >= 3.13 is required. however, >= 4.2 is recommended.

this package contains the debugging symbols for nftables.