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From: pg@netf.list.sabi.co.UK (Peter Grandi)
To: list Linux netfilter <netfilter@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: old question revisited: can rely in 'iptables-restore' format?
Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2012 00:26:57 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20530.51137.458307.357243@tree.ty.sabi.co.UK> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <COL124-W20E1581415198E1293F5D484B40@phx.gbl>

Perhaps it is useful to ask again an old question:

Is the format of files produced by 'iptables-saved' and consumed
by 'iptables-restore' still considered an internal, undocumented
format that may change at any time?

How stable is in practice that format?

Because I reckon that format has been stable for at least 10
years, and I wonder whether it may be desirable to write
firewall configurations directly in it, rather than using long
'iptables' command shell scripts.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2012-08-20 23:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-08-17 12:48 netfilter packetflow A G
2012-08-17 14:04 ` Jan Engelhardt
2012-08-20 23:26 ` Peter Grandi [this message]
2012-08-21  0:30   ` old question revisited: can rely in 'iptables-restore' format? /dev/rob0
2012-08-21  2:21     ` Neal Murphy
2012-08-22 17:35       ` /dev/rob0
2012-08-22 19:12         ` Jan Engelhardt
2012-08-23 19:20     ` Peter Grandi
2012-08-23 20:35       ` Jan Engelhardt

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