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-redirect-
       ion 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  exe-
	      cutable'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.

iptables 1.4.21 														  IPTABLES-SAVE(8)