NAME

       ip6tables-converter - program to convert ip6tables commands from file to ip6tables-restore format

SYNOPSIS

       ip6tables-converter [-s ip6tables-plain-file]

DESCRIPTION

       The  ip6tables-converter  takes  a regular file containing a series of ip6tables invocations and converts
       such a sequence to a format compatible with the ip6tables-restore command. No attempt is made to  reorder
       the sequence of the commands, especially nothing in the input is interpreted in any way.  All input lines
       not starting with "ip6tables" or "/sbin/ip6tables" are ignored. Any input lines  starting  with  "#"  are
       treated as comments and therefore are ignored.

       if  ip6tables-converter  is  run without any arguments, it tries to read a file named "rules" in workdir.
       That's the tribute to my way of doing.

       Output generally is send to stdout for your convienience and nowhere else. So  you  can  inspect  it  and
       write to file for later feeding the ip6tables-restore command.

       Something  needs  to  be  mentioned:  ip6tables  -E  intellectually  still is an unsolved problem and not
       implemented for now, sorry. Thank you for any hints of how to do it, I  can't  imagine  because  of  some
       lacks in my brain.

EXIT STATUS

       Normally  ip6tables-converter  returns  a  value  of  0.   In accidential case of errors exit status 1 is
       returned. For example, if there are shell variables or  shell  functions  in  the  inputfile,  these  are
       treated as error, which is reported. To avoid these, execute your scripts and feed their output as a file
       to ip6tables-converter.

VERSIONS

       ip6tables-converter should be compatibe to any ip6tables implementations out in the wild. If not, keep me
       informed, thanks. I'll do my very best.

OPTIONS

       -s filename This option gives you a chance to take another filename instaed of "rules"

AUTHOR

       Johannes Hubertz <johannes@hubertz.de> wrote this in 2013, 2014, 2015.  Any comments welcome anytime.

SEE ALSO

       ip6tables(8) ip6tables-save(8) ip6tables-restore(8)