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)