Manpage of IPTABLES
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IPTABLES
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Updated: Mar 09, 2002
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NAME
iptables - administration tool for IPv4 packet filtering and NAT
SYNOPSIS
iptables [-t table] -[ADC] chain rule-specification [options]
iptables [-t table] -I chain [rulenum] rule-specification [options]
iptables [-t table] -R chain rulenum rule-specification [options]
iptables [-t table] -D chain rulenum [options]
iptables [-t table] -[LFZ] [chain] [options]
iptables [-t table] -N chain
iptables [-t table] -X [chain]
iptables [-t table] -P chain target [options]
iptables [-t table] -E old-chain-name new-chain-name
DESCRIPTION
Iptables is used to set up, maintain, and inspect the tables of IP packet filter rules in the Linux kernel.
Several different tables may be defined. Each table contains a number of built-in chains and may also
contain user-defined chains.
Each chain is a list of rules which can match a set of packets. Each rule specifies what to do with a packet
that matches. This is called a `target', which may be a jump to a user-defined chain in the same table.
TARGETS
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