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)

Johannes Hubertz                                   March 2015                             ip6tables-converter(8)