> On 30 Apr 2020, at 05:26, trentbuck@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
>
> A typical ruleset looks like
>
> flush ruleset
> table filter { ... }
>
> That works fine until I have several partial rulesets (e.g. the
> sysadmin, libvirtd, and sshguard) that manage their own tables in
> parallel, e.g.
>
For various reasons, I construct a ruleset file and the first line or so comes from
nft list tables | sed -n '/mytablename/s/^/delete /p'
Which leads me to wonder whether there is any meaningful difference between flush and delete unless you don't want to delete sets defined in the table[1].
jch
[1] https://wiki.nftables.org/wiki-nftables/index.php/Configuring_tables
