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IPTABLES-SAVE(8)                                   iptables 1.4.21                                   IPTABLES-SAVE(8)



NAME
       iptables-save — dump iptables rules to stdout

       ip6tables-save — dump iptables rules to stdout

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

       ip6tables-save [-M,--modprobe 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/mod‐
              probe 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 <[email protected]>
       Rusty Russell <[email protected]>
       Andras Kis-Szabo <[email protected]> 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.



iptables 1.4.21                                                                                      IPTABLES-SAVE(8)