Script to parse active iptables rules

[Harald Welte]

On Thu, Sep 21, 2000 at 09:12:12PM +0000, Stephen A. Zarkos wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I'm not sure if anyone has done this for iptables already..  But anyway,
> here's a little perl script I wrote that can take the output from an
> iptables list command, parse it, and write it to a file to recreate the
> shell script.  Unfortunately, my schedule has gotten quite busy, and
> some of iptables' options aren't implemented yet. So if there are any
> perl hackers out there, it's pretty simple to add the missing
> functionality.  I'll get to it eventually tho.

mmmh... iptables is already prepared to do this in a more convenient way.

Have a look at the netfilter package and look for iptables-save.c and
iptables-restore.c

> Obsid
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