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From: Karsten Hohmeier <karsten.hohmeier@tu-ilmenau.de>
Subject: Re: Parsing conntrack entries
Date: Fri, 02 Jan 2015 01:10:58 +0100
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Hi Dennis,

> What is the best way to parse this information in a reliable way?

Maybe you could try dumping the table in XML as mentioned by the manpage?

conntrack -L -o xml
    Dump the connection tracking table in XML

Best Regards

Karsten