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diff --git a/iptables/iptables-xml.1 b/iptables/iptables-xml.1 new file mode 100644 index 00000000..048c2cb8 --- /dev/null +++ b/iptables/iptables-xml.1 @@ -0,0 +1,87 @@ +.TH IPTABLES-XML 8 "Jul 16, 2007" "" "" +.\" +.\" Man page written by Sam Liddicott <azez@ufomechanic.net> +.\" It is based on the iptables-save man page. +.\" +.\" This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify +.\" it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by +.\" the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or +.\" (at your option) any later version. +.\" +.\" This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, +.\" but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of +.\" MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the +.\" GNU General Public License for more details. +.\" +.\" You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License +.\" along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software +.\" Foundation, Inc., 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA. +.\" +.\" +.SH NAME +iptables-xml \(em Convert iptables-save format to XML +.SH SYNOPSIS +\fBiptables\-xml\fP [\fB\-c\fP] [\fB\-v\fP] +.SH DESCRIPTION +.PP +.B iptables-xml +is used to convert the output of iptables-save into an easily manipulatable +XML format to STDOUT. Use I/O-redirection provided by your shell to write to +a file. +.TP +\fB\-c\fR, \fB\-\-combine\fR +combine consecutive rules with the same matches but different targets. iptables +does not currently support more than one target per match, so this simulates +that by collecting the targets from consecutive iptables rules into one action +tag, but only when the rule matches are identical. Terminating actions like +RETURN, DROP, ACCEPT and QUEUE are not combined with subsequent targets. +.TP +\fB\-v\fR, \fB\-\-verbose\fR +Output xml comments containing the iptables line from which the XML is derived + +.PP +iptables-xml does a mechanistic conversion to a very expressive xml +format; the only semantic considerations are for \-g and \-j targets in +order to discriminate between <call> <goto> and <nane-of-target> as it +helps xml processing scripts if they can tell the difference between a +target like SNAT and another chain. + +Some sample output is: + +<iptables-rules> + <table name="mangle"> + <chain name="PREROUTING" policy="ACCEPT" packet-count="63436" +byte-count="7137573"> + <rule> + <conditions> + <match> + <p>tcp</p> + </match> + <tcp> + <sport>8443</sport> + </tcp> + </conditions> + <actions> + <call> + <check_ip/> + </call> + <ACCEPT/> + </actions> + </rule> + </chain> + </table> +</iptables-rules> + +.PP +Conversion from XML to iptables-save format may be done using the +iptables.xslt script and xsltproc, or a custom program using +libxsltproc or similar; in this fashion: + +xsltproc iptables.xslt my-iptables.xml | iptables-restore + +.SH BUGS +None known as of iptables-1.3.7 release +.SH AUTHOR +Sam Liddicott <azez@ufomechanic.net> +.SH SEE ALSO +\fBiptables\-save\fP(8), \fBiptables\-restore\fP(8), \fBiptables\fP(8) |