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XCCDF
Guide to the Secure Configuration of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8
System Settings
Network Configuration and Firewalls
nftables
Verify nftables Service is Disabled
Verify nftables Service is Disabled
An XCCDF Rule
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Verify nftables Service is Disabled
Medium Severity
nftables is a subsystem of the Linux kernel providing filtering and classification of network packets/datagrams/frames and is the successor to iptables. The
nftables
service can be disabled with the following command:
systemctl disable nftables