iptabler

Iptabler is a wrapper around iptables. Peter Krumins wrote node-iptables about 4 years ago and I drew a lot of inspiration from how it works.

At it's core, iptabler is just a simplified & flexible way to construct and issue a command line.

iptables Arguments

See the iptables man page to get a list of the possible arguments.

API

iptabler([options])

The options argument is an object which has property names that map to the chained method names which, in turn, map to command line arguments. For hyphenated arguments, the method names and properties are camelCased so --to-destination becomes toDestination.

Property values are assigned in the same order that they appear in the options.

The full list of options is here.

// sudo iptables --append INPUT --source 192.168.1.100 --jump DROP

iptabler({
	sudo: true,
	append: 'INPUT',
	source: '192.168.1.100',
	jump: 'DROP'
}).exec((err, stdout) => {
	if (err)
		throw err;
	console.log('result: ', stdout);
});

If the options are omitted, then you must call the chained methods to build the command line arguments

iptabler()
  .sudo()
  .append('INPUT')
  .source('192.168.1.100')
  .jump('DROP')
  .exec((err, stdout) => {
  	if (err)
  		throw err;
  	console.log('result: ', stdout);
  });

.exec([callback])

The .exec() method is required to actually execute the command line built by either the options or the chained methods. You can choose whether to send a callback along or to use the Promise that is returned so you can cleanly integrate it into your logic flow.