Why is the kernel community replacing iptables with BPF?Apr 17, 2018Why is the kernel community replacing iptables with BPF? Author Note: this is a post by long-time Linux kernel networking developer and creator of the Cilium project, Thomas Graf The Linux kernel community recently announced bpfilter, which will replace the long-standing in-kernel implementation of iptables with high-performance network filtering powered by Linux BPF, all while guarant
