[plug] Show the running iptables

[Andrew Furey]

On 4/13/05, Matthew Lambie <mlambie at thefrontiergroup.com.au> wrote:
> Is there a command that will export the *current* state of an iptables
> firewall back into the individual rules that you need to run to create
> that state?

/sbin/iptables-save should do a pretty good job (although the handling
of the separate tables (nat, etc) might need some hand-holding).

Andrew

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