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.TH IPTABLES-SAVE 8 "Jan 04, 2001" "" ""
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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.
.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 <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.