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Subject: Re: Firewalls: Rant
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Sylvia Else <sylvia@email.invalid> writes:

> Really?
>
> I have to learn a THIRD way of doing firewalling?
>
> First it was ipchains.
>
> Then it was iptables.
>
> Now apparently, that's not good enough, so I have to get my head
> around nftables.

That's wild.  I remember telling myself---gotta study ipchains.  But
then iptables appeared and I was like---hm, interesting!  Maybe my life
will be easier now.  Lol.  Perhaps I can be glad I never got around to
study any of them?  The nftables websites says it's a successor to
iptables.

I think that's not the way to do things.  We should not blindly follow
along software development.  Remember---many of these things will fall.
Programming languages for instance.  If you're still writing Perl or
Lisp, say, you're doing just fine.  In fact, you are much more
productive if you just keep using your good tools and let the world move
on.

Of course, perhaps you work in a market that is always high on the new
kid on the block, but then perhaps the best thing is to get out of that
market.

I interviewed with a company in Paris once.  They didn't hire me and
called me old school due to C and Lisp.  I was a little hurt.  I was
their age, but I think they don't care about my teachers' lessons.