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IPTABLES-SAVE
Section: iptables 1.6.1 (8)Updated:
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NAME
iptables-save --- dump iptables rules to stdout ip6tables-save --- dump iptables rules to stdoutSYNOPSIS
iptables-save [-M modprobe] [-c] [-t table] ip6tables-save [-M modprobe] [-c] [-t table]DESCRIPTION
iptables-save and ip6tables-save are used to dump the contents of IP or IPv6 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 releaseAUTHORS
Harald Welte <laforge@gnumonks.org>Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Andras Kis-Szabo <kisza@sch.bme.hu> contributed ip6tables-save.
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.