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nftables setup

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- Now we'll get into the lab for nftables. I recommend that you work with either a Debian server, Ubuntu server, or CentOS server for this lab. I'm going to be working on a Debian server as roots and you want to make sure that you have another Linux system to connect as a client and test against the firewall that we're going to build. So this lab is Lab 24, if you want to follow along, nftables, and the lab demonstrates how to install and configure nftables on Debian server. So we're going to break this lab up into a couple different sub lessons. So it's going to span several sub lessons. We're going to start with the installation and starting up nftables and testing the server from a remote client. So let's get to the server side now. I'm at my Debian Server and I'm logged in as root. You want to make sure that nftables is installed. If you don't have nftables, you can install it with apt install nftables. And that's short for Netfilter Tables, but most likely, you have it. If you're…

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