.TH IPTABLES-SAVE 8 "Jan 04, 2001" "" "" .\" .\" Man page written by Harald Welte .\" It is based on the ipptables man page. .\" .\" This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify .\" it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by .\" the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or .\" (at your option) any later version. .\" .\" This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, .\" but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of .\" MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the .\" GNU General Public License for more details. .\" .\" You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License .\" along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software .\" Foundation, Inc., 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA. .\" .\" .SH NAME iptables-save \- Save IP Tables .SH SYNOPSIS .BR "iptables-save " "[-c] [-t table]" .br .SH DESCRIPTION .PP .B iptables-save is used to dump the contents of an IP Table in easily parseable format to STDOUT. Use I/O-redirection provided by your shell to write to a file. .TP \fB\-c\fR, \fB\-\-counters\fR include the current values of all packet and byte counters in the output .TP \fB\-t\fR, \fB\-\-table\fR \fBtablename\fR .TP restrict output to only one table. If not specified, output includes all available tables. .SH BUGS .B iptables-save doesn't order user-defined chains and builtin chains in any specific manner. This raises some dependency problems when using the unmodified output of .B iptables-save as input for .B iptables-restore. .PP Expect this to be fixed in the next iptables release. .PP To make it work, reorder the output in a way that in every table, all user-defined chains are created before any other chain uses this chain as target. .SH AUTHOR Harald Welte .SH SEE ALSO .BR iptables-restore "(8), " iptables "(8) " .PP The iptables-HOWTO, which details more iptables usage, the NAT-HOWTO, which details NAT, and the netfilter-hacking-HOWTO which details the internals.