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 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

AUTHORS
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.