NAME

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

SYNOPSIS

       ip6tables-converter [options]

DESCRIPTION

       The  ip6tables-converter  takes  a  regular file containing a series of iptables 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.
       Output is written to stdout That's the tribute to my way of doing.

       Something  needs  to  be  mentioned:  iptables  -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  accidental  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 iptables implementations out in the wild. If not, keep me
       informed, thanks. I'll do my very best.

OPTIONS

       -d filename or --dest-file=Destinationfile This options argument defines the destination filename,  where
       the  output  is  written  to.   If omitted, output is written to stdout for your convienience and nowhere
       else. So you can inspect it and write to file for later feeding the ip6tables-restore command.

       -s filename or --source-file=Sourcefile This options argument names the source file, where input is  read
       from. If omitted, the default filename is "rules".

       --sloppy This indicates '-N UserChain' is not required prior to mentioning any UserChain input or append,
       the chain is build on the fly. It was build in for special user request.

AUTHOR

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

SEE ALSO

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

Johannes Hubertz                                   August 2018                            ip6tables-converter(8)