Feature Request: Preview of the iptables changes
999faryad opened this issue · 5 comments
It would be really nice if there was a parameter -p --preview, which would not make any changes to the system with --noexec, but would write the changes to the iptables rules to the stdout.
You mean like --lines --noexec?
Yes, similar, but unfortunately this only shows the rules that are applied, without the corresponding chains.
I rather mean that the output would be like that of iptables -L
Not true. It does show chains, but it does not show the rules that are applied (nothing gets applied, which is the point of --noexec).
My usecase would be that I would like to use an iptables visualise tool to turn the IPTables rules into a graph/diagram without applying them.
Hence the suggestion that there would be an option to format the output like an output from iptables -L.
No. You better fix your "visualise tool" to accept a standard format and not the "iptables -L" output format, which is a pretty bad choice.