NAME¶

iptables-save — dump iptables rules to stdout

SYNOPSIS¶

iptables-save [-M modprobe] [-c] [-t table]

DESCRIPTION¶

iptables-save is used to dump the contents of an IP Table in easily parseable format to STDOUT. Use I/O-redirection provided by your shell to write to a file.

-M, --modprobe modprobe_program

Specify the path to the modprobe program. By default, iptables-save will inspect /proc/sys/kernel/modprobe to determine the executable's path.

-c, --counters

include the current values of all packet and byte counters in the output

-t, --table tablename

restrict output to only one table. If not specified, output includes all available tables.

BUGS¶

None known as of iptables-1.2.1 release

AUTHOR¶

Harald Welte <laforge@gnumonks.org>

SEE ALSO¶

iptables-restore(8), iptables(8)

The iptables-HOWTO, which details more iptables usage, the NAT-HOWTO, which details NAT, and the netfilter-hacking-HOWTO which details the internals.