ip6tables-converter(8)

💖 ip6tables-converter 💖

okay bestie, so this is the manual page for ip6tables-converter — section 8 of the manual, system admin territory, we're in our root era 👑

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✨ NAME ✨

ip6tables-converter — a program to convert ip6tables commands from a file into ip6tables-restore format. that's literally the whole job. she's a translator, she's bilingual in firewall 💅

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

ip6tables-converter [options]

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

So here's the vibe: ip6tables-converter takes a regular file that's full of a whole series of iptables invocations, and converts that sequence into a format that plays nice with the ip6tables-restore command. it's giving glow-up for your ruleset ✨

No attempt is made to reorder the sequence of the commands — like, none. and nothing in the input is interpreted in any way. she does not read your mind, she does not editorialize, she just converts. periodt.

• All input lines that don't start with "ip6tables" or "/sbin/ip6tables" are ignored.
• Any input lines starting with "#" are treated as comments, so they're ignored too. 🙈

If ip6tables-converter is run with no arguments at all, she tries to read a file named rules in the workdir. Output goes to stdout. and that's the tribute to my way of doing, iykyk 🫶

Okay and something that lowkey needs to be said out loud: iptables -E is intellectually still an unsolved problem and it's 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. bestie is honest about her limits, that's growth 🌱

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💀 EXIT STATUS 💀

Normally ip6tables-converter returns a value of 0. 🎉

In the accidental case of errors, exit status 1 is returned. For example, if there are shell variables or shell functions in the input file, those are treated as an error, and it gets reported. To avoid that whole situation: execute your scripts and feed their output as a file to ip6tables-converter. slay, problem solved 💅

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🌈 VERSIONS 🌈

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

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🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

• -d filename or --dest-file=Destinationfile — this option's argument defines the destination filename, which is where the output gets written to. If it's omitted, output is written to stdout for your convienience and nowhere else. So you can inspect it 👀 and then write it to a file later for feeding the ip6tables-restore command.
• -s filename or --source-file=Sourcefile — this option's argument names the source file, which is where input gets read from. If it's omitted, the default filename is "rules".
• --sloppy — this indicates that '-N UserChain' is not required prior to mentioning any UserChain input or append; the chain is built on the fly. It was build in for a special user request. chaotic but requested, we respect it 🫡

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👑 AUTHOR 👑

Johannes Hubertz <johannes@hubertz.de> wrote this from 2013 to 2018. Any comments welcome anytime. 💌

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🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

iptables(8) iptables-save(8) iptables-restore(8)

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and that's the whole page, bestie!! this manual page came from Johannes Hubertz, dated August 2018 — go read it on your own system if you want the unglowed-up version. mwah 💖✨