netifd protocol support for cni networks makes
defining network for podman and other similar
systems using cni networking much easier and simpler.
with cni protocol support, on a cni network, where firewall
and portmapper is disabled, you may control firewalling
with openwrt's standard firewall configuration.
for example, create a container that hosts web content on
port 80 with static ip on your cni network, if your
network is 10.88.0.0/16, use for eg. 10.88.0.101 as
your containers static ip address. Create a zone, cni
to your firewall and add your interface to it.
Now you can easily set up redirectiong to 10.88.0.101:80
to expose it's port 80 to wan for serving your website.
Protocol has only one setting: device, on podman this
often is cni-podman0. This protocol may also be used
on other equillavents, such as netavark (cni replacement
in podman), where device as default is podman0.