John R Pierce wrote: > On 06/27/11 10:43 AM, Ljubomir Ljubojevic wrote: >>> note that doesn't show all the pertinent info. I prefer `iptable -L >>> -vn`, and it still doesn't show the nat tables, you also need >>> `iptable -L -vn -t nat` to see those chains, and `iptable -L -vn -t >>> mangle` if you're using any mangle entries. >> >> iptables-save is designed for iptables output. > > sure, for saving to the startup scripts.... the commands I listed above > were to display the tables with full info... Without the -v flag, -L > only shows part of the important stuff. > iptables-save man: DESCRIPTION: 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. Ljubomir