1 .TH IPTABLES-SAVE 8 "" "@PACKAGE_STRING@" "@PACKAGE_STRING@"
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22 iptables-save \(em dump iptables rules
24 ip6tables-save \(em dump iptables rules
26 \fBiptables\-save\fP [\fB\-M\fP \fImodprobe\fP] [\fB\-c\fP]
27 [\fB\-t\fP \fItable\fP] [\fB\-f\fP \fIfilename\fP]
29 \fBip6tables\-save\fP [\fB\-M\fP \fImodprobe\fP] [\fB\-c\fP]
30 [\fB\-t\fP \fItable\fP] [\fB\-f\fP \fIfilename\fP]
36 are used to dump the contents of IP or IPv6 Table in easily parseable format
37 either to STDOUT or to a specified file.
39 \fB\-M\fR, \fB\-\-modprobe\fR \fImodprobe\fP
40 Specify the path to the modprobe(8) program. By default,
41 iptables-save will inspect \fI/proc/sys/kernel/modprobe\fP to determine
42 the executable's path.
44 \fB\-f\fR, \fB\-\-file\fR \fIfilename\fP
45 Specify a filename to log the output to. If not specified, iptables-save
48 \fB\-c\fR, \fB\-\-counters\fR
49 Include the current values of all packet and byte counters in the output.
51 \fB\-t\fR, \fB\-\-table\fR \fItablename\fP
52 Restrict output to only one table. If the kernel is configured with automatic
53 module loading, an attempt will be made to load the appropriate module for
54 that table if it is not already there.
56 If not specified, output includes all available tables. No module loading takes
57 place, so in order to include a specific table in the output, the respective
58 module (something like \fBiptable_mangle\fP or \fBip6table_raw\fP) must be
61 None known as of iptables-1.2.1 release
63 Harald Welte <laforge@gnumonks.org>
65 Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
67 Andras Kis-Szabo <kisza@sch.bme.hu> contributed ip6tables-save.
69 \fBiptables\-apply\fP(8), \fBiptables\-restore\fP(8), \fBiptables\fP(8)
71 The iptables-HOWTO, which details more iptables usage, the NAT-HOWTO,
72 which details NAT, and the netfilter-hacking-HOWTO which details the