iptablesweb

A small rust project that visualizes the contents of iptables in a web interface.

Also, an example how to embedd a SPA web application into a rust binary with minimal (or even no) runtime dependencies. It uses svelte, vite, tailwindcss, flowbite-svelte on the web frontend. And rust, warp on the backend.

Credits to the Rust+Vite+Svelte project https://github.com/fdeantoni/rust-vite-svelte and the iptables_exporter project https://github.com/kbknapp/iptables_exporter where this project took inspiration and code from.

To run it, download the latest release from the releases, make it executable and run it as root or sudo.

chmod +x iptablesweb
sudo ./iptablesweb

The web frontend is accessed on http://localhost:3030

Run with option --help to see the available command line options.

Development

To build the project from source, first build the web frontend:

cd web
npm install
npm run build

This creates a single page web application in the web/dist folder.

Then build the rust project:

cd ..
cargo build --release

This compiles the rust application and links the web frontend into the application binary. The binary is target/release/iptablesweb

Run it

sudo target/release/iptablesweb

It must be run as root or sudo to run the iptables-save command and process its output.