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+.TH IPTABLES-SAVE 8 "Jan 04, 2001" "" ""
+.\"
+.\" Man page written by Harald Welte <laforge@gnumonks.org>
+.\" 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,
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+.\"
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+.\"
+.\"
+.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.
+Expect this to be fixed in the next iptables release.
+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 <laforge@gnumonks.org>
+.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.