IPTABLES-SAVE(8) iptables 1.6.0 IPTABLES-SAVE(8)
NAME
iptables-save — dump iptables rules to stdout
ip6tables-save — dump iptables rules to stdout
SYNOPSIS
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 eas‐
ily 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
AUTHORS
Harald Welte
Rusty Russell
Andras Kis-Szabo contributed ip6tables-save.
SEE ALSO
iptables-apply(8),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.
iptables 1.6.0 IPTABLES-SAVE(8)
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