From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: pg@netf.list.sabi.co.UK (Peter Grandi) Subject: old question revisited: can rely in 'iptables-restore' format? Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2012 00:26:57 +0100 Message-ID: <20530.51137.458307.357243@tree.ty.sabi.co.UK> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: Sender: netfilter-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: list Linux netfilter 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.