iptables -- administration tool for IPv4 packet filtering and NAT
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linux:~$ man iptables
IPTABLES(8) iptables 1.4.20 IPTABLES(8)
NAME
iptables -- administration tool for IPv4 packet filtering and NAT
SYNOPSIS
iptables [-t table] {-A|-C|-D} chain rule-specification
iptables [-t table] -I chain [rulenum] rule-specification
iptables [-t table] -R chain rulenum rule-specification
iptables [-t table] -D chain rulenum
iptables [-t table] -S [chain [rulenum]]
iptables [-t table] {-F|-L|-Z} [chain [rulenum]] [options...]
iptables [-t table] -N chain
iptables [-t table] -X [chain]
iptables [-t table] -P chain target
iptables [-t table] -E old-chain-name new-chain-name
rule-specification = [matches...] [target]
match = -m matchname [per-match-options]
target = -j targetname [per-target-options]
DESCRIPTION
Iptables is used to set up, maintain, and inspect the tables of IPv4 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
A firewall rule specifies criteria for a packet and a target. If the packet does not match,
the next rule in the chain is the examined; if it does match, then the next rule is specified
by the value of the target, which can be the name of a user-defined chain or one of the spe-
cial values ACCEPT, DROP, QUEUE or RETURN.
ACCEPT means to let the packet through. DROP means to drop the packet on the floor. QUEUE
means to pass the packet to userspace. (How the packet can be received by a userspace
process differs by the particular queue handler. 2.4.x and 2.6.x kernels up to 2.6.13
include the ip_queue queue handler. Kernels 2.6.14 and later additionally include the
nfnetlink_queue queue handler. Packets with a target of QUEUE will be sent to queue number
'0' in this case. Please also see the NFQUEUE target as described later in this man page.)
RETURN means stop traversing this chain and resume at the next rule in the previous (calling)
chain. If the end of a built-in chain is reached or a rule in a built-in chain with target
RETURN is matched, the target specified by the chain policy determines the fate of the
packet.
TABLES
There are currently five independent tables (which tables are present at any time depends on
the kernel configuration options and which modules are present).
-t, --table table
This option specifies the packet matching table which the command should operate on.
If the kernel is configured with automatic module loading, an attempt will be made to
load the appropriate module for that table if it is not already there.
The tables are as follows:
filter:
This is the default table (if no -t option is passed). It contains the built-in
chains INPUT (for packets destined to local sockets), FORWARD (for packets being
routed through the box), and OUTPUT (for locally-generated packets).
nat:
This table is consulted when a packet that creates a new connection is encoun-
tered. It consists of three built-ins: PREROUTING (for altering packets as soon
as they come in), OUTPUT (for altering locally-generated packets before routing),
and POSTROUTING (for altering packets as they are about to go out).
mangle:
This table is used for specialized packet alteration. Until kernel 2.4.17 it had
two built-in chains: PREROUTING (for altering incoming packets before routing) and
OUTPUT (for altering locally-generated packets before routing). Since kernel
2.4.18, three other built-in chains are also supported: INPUT (for packets coming
into the box itself), FORWARD (for altering packets being routed through the box),
and POSTROUTING (for altering packets as they are about to go out).
raw:
This table is used mainly for configuring exemptions from connection tracking in
combination with the NOTRACK target. It registers at the netfilter hooks with
higher priority and is thus called before ip_conntrack, or any other IP tables.
It provides the following built-in chains: PREROUTING (for packets arriving via
any network interface) OUTPUT (for packets generated by local processes)
security:
This table is used for Mandatory Access Control (MAC) networking rules, such as
those enabled by the SECMARK and CONNSECMARK targets. Mandatory Access Control is
implemented by Linux Security Modules such as SELinux. The security table is
called after the filter table, allowing any Discretionary Access Control (DAC)
rules in the filter table to take effect before MAC rules. This table provides
the following built-in chains: INPUT (for packets coming into the box itself),
OUTPUT (for altering locally-generated packets before routing), and FORWARD (for
altering packets being routed through the box).
OPTIONS
The options that are recognized by iptables can be divided into several different groups.
COMMANDS
These options specify the desired action to perform. Only one of them can be specified on the
command line unless otherwise stated below. For long versions of the command and option
names, you need to use only enough letters to ensure that iptables can differentiate it from
all other options.
-A, --append chain rule-specification
Append one or more rules to the end of the selected chain. When the source and/or
destination names resolve to more than one address, a rule will be added for each pos-
sible address combination.
-C, --check chain rule-specification
Check whether a rule matching the specification does exist in the selected chain. This
command uses the same logic as -D to find a matching entry, but does not alter the
existing iptables configuration and uses its exit code to indicate success or failure.
-D, --delete chain rule-specification
-D, --delete chain rulenum
Delete one or more rules from the selected chain. There are two versions of this com-
mand: the rule can be specified as a number in the chain (starting at 1 for the first
rule) or a rule to match.
-I, --insert chain [rulenum] rule-specification
Insert one or more rules in the selected chain as the given rule number. So, if the
rule number is 1, the rule or rules are inserted at the head of the chain. This is
also the default if no rule number is specified.
-R, --replace chain rulenum rule-specification
Replace a rule in the selected chain. If the source and/or destination names resolve
to multiple addresses, the command will fail. Rules are numbered starting at 1.
-L, --list [chain]
List all rules in the selected chain. If no chain is selected, all chains are listed.
Like every other iptables command, it applies to the specified table (filter is the
default), so NAT rules get listed by
iptables -t nat -n -L
Please note that it is often used with the -n option, in order to avoid long reverse
DNS lookups. It is legal to specify the -Z (zero) option as well, in which case the
chain(s) will be atomically listed and zeroed. The exact output is affected by the
other arguments given. The exact rules are suppressed until you use
iptables -L -v
-S, --list-rules [chain]
Print all rules in the selected chain. If no chain is selected, all chains are
printed like iptables-save. Like every other iptables command, it applies to the spec-
ified table (filter is the default).
-F, --flush [chain]
Flush the selected chain (all the chains in the table if none is given). This is
equivalent to deleting all the rules one by one.
-Z, --zero [chain [rulenum]]
Zero the packet and byte counters in all chains, or only the given chain, or only the
given rule in a chain. It is legal to specify the -L, --list (list) option as well, to
see the counters immediately before they are cleared. (See above.)
-N, --new-chain chain
Create a new user-defined chain by the given name. There must be no target of that
name already.
-X, --delete-chain [chain]
Delete the optional user-defined chain specified. There must be no references to the
chain. If there are, you must delete or replace the referring rules before the chain
can be deleted. The chain must be empty, i.e. not contain any rules. If no argument
is given, it will attempt to delete every non-builtin chain in the table.
-P, --policy chain target
Set the policy for the chain to the given target. See the section TARGETS for the
legal targets. Only built-in (non-user-defined) chains can have policies, and neither
built-in nor user-defined chains can be policy targets.
-E, --rename-chain old-chain new-chain
Rename the user specified chain to the user supplied name. This is cosmetic, and has
no effect on the structure of the table.
-h Help. Give a (currently very brief) description of the command syntax.
PARAMETERS
The following parameters make up
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a rule specification (as used in the add, delete, insert,
replace and append commands).
-4, --ipv4
This option has no effect in iptables and iptables-restore.
-6, --ipv6
If a rule using the -6 option is inserted with (and only with) iptables-restore, it
will be silently ignored. Any other uses will throw an error. This option allows to
put both IPv4 and IPv6 rules in a single rule file for use with both iptables-restore
and ip6tables-restore.
[!] -p, --protocol protocol
The protocol of the rule or of the packet to check. The specified protocol can be one
of tcp, udp, udplite, icmp, esp, ah, sctp or the special keyword "all", or it can be a
numeric value, representing one of these protocols or a different one. A protocol
name from /etc/protocols is also allowed. A "!" argument before the protocol inverts
the test. The number zero is equivalent to all. "all" will match with all protocols
and is taken as default when this option is omitted.
[!] -s, --source address[/mask][,...]
Source specification. Address can be either a network name, a hostname, a network IP
address (with /mask), or a plain IP address. Hostnames will be resolved once only,
before the rule is submitted to the kernel. Please note that specifying any name to
be resolved with a remote query such as DNS is a really bad idea. The mask can be
either a network mask or a plain number, specifying the number of 1's at the left side
of the network mask. Thus, a mask of 24 is equivalent to 255.255.255.0. A "!" argu-
ment before the address specification inverts the sense of the address. The flag --src
is an alias for this option. Multiple addresses can be specified, but this will
expand to multiple rules (when adding with -A), or will cause multiple rules to be
deleted (with -D).
[!] -d, --destination address[/mask][,...]
Destination specification. See the description of the -s (source) flag for a detailed
description of the syntax. The flag --dst is an alias for this option.
-m, --match match
Specifies a match to use, that is, an extension module that tests for a specific prop-
erty. The set of matches make up the condition under which a target is invoked.
Matches are evaluated first to last as specified on the command line and work in
short-circuit fashion, i.e. if one extension yields false, evaluation will stop.
-j, --jump target
This specifies the target of the rule; i.e., what to do if the packet matches it. The
target can be a user-defined chain (other than the one this rule is in), one of the
special builtin targets which decide the fate of the packet immediately, or an exten-
sion (see EXTENSIONS below). If this option is omitted in a rule (and -g is not
used), then matching the rule will have no effect on the packet's fate, but the coun-
ters on the rule will be incremented.
-g, --goto chain
This specifies that the processing should continue in a user specified chain. Unlike
the --jump option return will not continue processing in this chain but instead in the
chain that called us via --jump.
[!] -i, --in-interface name
Name of an interface via which a packet was received (only for packets entering the
INPUT, FORWARD and PREROUTING chains). When the "!" argument is used before the
interface name, the sense is inverted. If the interface name ends in a "+", then any
interface which begins with this name will match. If this option is omitted, any
interface name will match.
[!] -o, --out-interface name
Name of an interface via which a packet is going to be sent (for packets entering the
FORWARD, OUTPUT and POSTROUTING chains). When the "!" argument is used before the
interface name, the sense is inverted. If the interface name ends in a "+", then any
interface which begins with this name will match. If this option is omitted, any
interface name will match.
[!] -f, --fragment
This means that the rule only refers to second and further fragments of fragmented
packets. Since there is no way to tell the source or destination ports of such a
packet (or ICMP type), such a packet will not match any rules which specify them.
When the "!" argument precedes the "-f" flag, the rule will only match head fragments,
or unfragmented packets.
-c, --set-counters packets bytes
This enables the administrator to initialize the packet and byte counters of a rule
(during INSERT, APPEND, REPLACE operations).
OTHER OPTIONS
The following additional options can be specified:
-v, --verbose
Verbose output. This option makes the list command show the interface name, the rule
options (if any), and the TOS masks. The packet and byte counters are also listed,
with the suffix 'K', 'M' or 'G' for 1000, 1,000,000 and 1,000,000,000 multipliers
respectively (but see the -x flag to change this). For appending, insertion, deletion
and replacement, this causes detailed information on the rule or rules to be printed.
-v may be specified multiple times to possibly emit more detailed debug statements.
-w, --wait
Wait for the xtables lock. To prevent multiple instances of the program from running
concurrently, an attempt will be made to obtain an exclusive lock at launch. By
default, the program will exit if the lock cannot be obtained. This option will make
the program wait until the exclusive lock can be obtained.
-n, --numeric
Numeric output. IP addresses and port numbers will be printed in numeric format. By
default, the program will try to display them as host names, network names, or ser-
vices (whenever applicable).
-x, --exact
Expand numbers. Display the exact value of the packet and byte counters, instead of
only the rounded number in K's (multiples of 1000) M's (multiples of 1000K) or G's
(multiples of 1000M). This option is only relevant for the -L command.
--line-numbers
When listing rules, add line numbers to the beginning of each rule, corresponding to
that rule's position in the chain.
--modprobe=command
When adding or inserting rules into a chain, use command to load any necessary modules
(targets, match extensions, etc).
MATCH AND TARGET EXTENSIONS
iptables can use extended packet matching and target modules. A list of these is available
in the iptables-extensions(8) manpage.
DIAGNOSTICS
Various error messages are printed to standard error. The exit code is 0 for correct func-
tioning. Errors which appear to be caused by invalid or abused command line parameters cause
an exit code of 2, and other errors cause an exit code of 1.
BUGS
Bugs? What's this? ;-) Well, you might want to have a look at http://bugzilla.netfilter.org/
COMPATIBILITY WITH IPCHAINS
This iptables is very similar to ipchains by Rusty Russell. The main difference is that the
chains INPUT and OUTPUT are only traversed for packets coming into the local host and origi-
nating from the local host respectively. Hence every packet only passes through one of the
three chains (except loopback traffic, which involves both INPUT and OUTPUT chains); previ-
ously a forwarded packet would pass through all three.
The other main difference is that -i refers to the input interface; -o refers to the output
interface, and both are available for packets entering the FORWARD chain.
The various forms of NAT have been separated out; iptables is a pure packet filter when using
the default `filter' table, with optional extension modules. This should simplify much of
the previous confusion over the combination of IP masquerading and packet filtering seen pre-
viously. So the following options are handled differently:
-j MASQ
-M -S
-M -L
There are several other changes in iptables.
SEE ALSO
iptables-apply(8), iptables-save(8), iptables-restore(8), iptables-extensions(8),
ip6tables(8), ip6tables-save(8), ip6tables-restore(8), libipq(3).
The packet-filtering-HOWTO details iptables usage for packet filtering, the NAT-HOWTO details
NAT, the netfilter-extensions-HOWTO details the extensions that are not in the standard dis-
tribution, and the netfilter-hacking-HOWTO details the netfilter internals.
See http://www.netfilter.org/.
AUTHORS
Rusty Russell originally wrote iptables, in early consultation with Michael Neuling.
Marc Boucher made Rusty abandon ipnatctl by lobbying for a generic packet selection framework
in iptables, then wrote the mangle table, the owner match, the mark stuff, and ran around
doing cool stuff everywhere.
James Morris wrote the TOS target, and tos match.
Jozsef Kadlecsik wrote the REJECT target.
Harald Welte wrote the ULOG and NFQUEUE target, the new libiptc, as well as the TTL, DSCP,
ECN matches and targets.
The Netfilter Core Team is: Marc Boucher, Martin Josefsson, Yasuyuki Kozakai, Jozsef Kadlec-
sik, Patrick McHardy, James Morris, Pablo Neira Ayuso, Harald Welte and Rusty Russell.
Man page originally written by Herve Eychenne <rv@wallfire.org>.
VERSION
This manual page applies to iptables 1.4.20.
iptables 1.4.20 IPTABLES(8)
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IPTABLES(8) iptables 1.4.20 IPTABLES(8)
NAME
iptables -- administration tool for IPv4 packet filtering and NAT
SYNOPSIS
iptables [-t table] {-A|-C|-D} chain rule-specification
iptables [-t table] -I chain [rulenum] rule-specification
iptables [-t table] -R chain rulenum rule-specification
iptables [-t table] -D chain rulenum
iptables [-t table] -S [chain [rulenum]]
iptables [-t table] {-F|-L|-Z} [chain [rulenum]] [options...]
iptables [-t table] -N chain
iptables [-t table] -X [chain]
iptables [-t table] -P chain target
iptables [-t table] -E old-chain-name new-chain-name
rule-specification = [matches...] [target]
match = -m matchname [per-match-options]
target = -j targetname [per-target-options]
DESCRIPTION
Iptables is used to set up, maintain, and inspect the tables of IPv4 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
A firewall rule specifies criteria for a packet and a target. If the packet does not match,
the next rule in the chain is the examined; if it does match, then the next rule is specified
by the value of the target, which can be the name of a user-defined chain or one of the spe-
cial values ACCEPT, DROP, QUEUE or RETURN.
ACCEPT means to let the packet through. DROP means to drop the packet on the floor. QUEUE
means to pass the packet to userspace. (How the packet can be received by a userspace
process differs by the particular queue handler. 2.4.x and 2.6.x kernels up to 2.6.13
include the ip_queue queue handler. Kernels 2.6.14 and later additionally include the
nfnetlink_queue queue handler. Packets with a target of QUEUE will be sent to queue number
'0' in this case. Please also see the NFQUEUE target as described later in this man page.)
RETURN means stop traversing this chain and resume at the next rule in the previous (calling)
chain. If the end of a built-in chain is reached or a rule in a built-in chain with target
RETURN is matched, the target specified by the chain policy determines the fate of the
packet.
TABLES
There are currently five independent tables (which tables are present at any time depends on
the kernel configuration options and which modules are present).
-t, --table table
This option specifies the packet matching table which the command should operate on.
If the kernel is configured with automatic module loading, an attempt will be made to
load the appropriate module for that table if it is not already there.
The tables are as follows:
filter:
This is the default table (if no -t option is passed). It contains the built-in
chains INPUT (for packets destined to local sockets), FORWARD (for packets being
routed through the box), and OUTPUT (for locally-generated packets).
nat:
This table is consulted when a packet that creates a new connection is encoun-
tered. It consists of three built-ins: PREROUTING (for altering packets as soon
as they come in), OUTPUT (for altering locally-generated packets before routing),
and POSTROUTING (for altering packets as they are about to go out).
mangle:
This table is used for specialized packet alteration. Until kernel 2.4.17 it had
two built-in chains: PREROUTING (for altering incoming packets before routing) and
OUTPUT (for altering locally-generated packets before routing). Since kernel
2.4.18, three other built-in chains are also supported: INPUT (for packets coming
into the box itself), FORWARD (for altering packets being routed through the box),
and POSTROUTING (for altering packets as they are about to go out).
raw:
This table is used mainly for configuring exemptions from connection tracking in
combination with the NOTRACK target. It registers at the netfilter hooks with
higher priority and is thus called before ip_conntrack, or any other IP tables.
It provides the following built-in chains: PREROUTING (for packets arriving via
any network interface) OUTPUT (for packets generated by local processes)
security:
This table is used for Mandatory Access Control (MAC) networking rules, such as
those enabled by the SECMARK and CONNSECMARK targets. Mandatory Access Control is
implemented by Linux Security Modules such as SELinux. The security table is
called after the filter table, allowing any Discretionary Access Control (DAC)
rules in the filter table to take effect before MAC rules. This table provides
the following built-in chains: INPUT (for packets coming into the box itself),
OUTPUT (for altering locally-generated packets before routing), and FORWARD (for
altering packets being routed through the box).
OPTIONS
The options that are recognized by iptables can be divided into several different groups.
COMMANDS
These options specify the desired action to perform. Only one of them can be specified on the
command line unless otherwise stated below. For long versions of the command and option
names, you need to use only enough letters to ensure that iptables can differentiate it from
all other options.
-A, --append chain rule-specification
Append one or more rules to the end of the selected chain. When the source and/or
destination names resolve to more than one address, a rule will be added for each pos-
sible address combination.
-C, --check chain rule-specification
Check whether a rule matching the specification does exist in the selected chain. This
command uses the same logic as -D to find a matching entry, but does not alter the
existing iptables configuration and uses its exit code to indicate success or failure.
-D, --delete chain rule-specification
-D, --delete chain rulenum
Delete one or more rules from the selected chain. There are two versions of this com-
mand: the rule can be specified as a number in the chain (starting at 1 for the first
rule) or a rule to match.
-I, --insert chain [rulenum] rule-specification
Insert one or more rules in the selected chain as the given rule number. So, if the
rule number is 1, the rule or rules are inserted at the head of the chain. This is
also the default if no rule number is specified.
-R, --replace chain rulenum rule-specification
Replace a rule in the selected chain. If the source and/or destination names resolve
to multiple addresses, the command will fail. Rules are numbered starting at 1.
-L, --list [chain]
List all rules in the selected chain. If no chain is selected, all chains are listed.
Like every other iptables command, it applies to the specified table (filter is the
default), so NAT rules get listed by
iptables -t nat -n -L
Please note that it is often used with the -n option, in order to avoid long reverse
DNS lookups. It is legal to specify the -Z (zero) option as well, in which case the
chain(s) will be atomically listed and zeroed. The exact output is affected by the
other arguments given. The exact rules are suppressed until you use
iptables -L -v
-S, --list-rules [chain]
Print all rules in the selected chain. If no chain is selected, all chains are
printed like iptables-save. Like every other iptables command, it applies to the spec-
ified table (filter is the default).
-F, --flush [chain]
Flush the selected chain (all the chains in the table if none is given). This is
equivalent to deleting all the rules one by one.
-Z, --zero [chain [rulenum]]
Zero the packet and byte counters in all chains, or only the given chain, or only the
given rule in a chain. It is legal to specify the -L, --list (list) option as well, to
see the counters immediately before they are cleared. (See above.)
-N, --new-chain chain
Create a new user-defined chain by the given name. There must be no target of that
name already.
-X, --delete-chain [chain]
Delete the optional user-defined chain specified. There must be no references to the
chain. If there are, you must delete or replace the referring rules before the chain
can be deleted. The chain must be empty, i.e. not contain any rules. If no argument
is given, it will attempt to delete every non-builtin chain in the table.
-P, --policy chain target
Set the policy for the chain to the given target. See the section TARGETS for the
legal targets. Only built-in (non-user-defined) chains can have policies, and neither
built-in nor user-defined chains can be policy targets.
-E, --rename-chain old-chain new-chain
Rename the user specified chain to the user supplied name. This is cosmetic, and has
no effect on the structure of the table.
-h Help. Give a (currently very brief) description of the command syntax.
PARAMETERS
The following parameters make up
1062b
a rule specification (as used in the add, delete, insert,
replace and append commands).
-4, --ipv4
This option has no effect in iptables and iptables-restore.
-6, --ipv6
If a rule using the -6 option is inserted with (and only with) iptables-restore, it
will be silently ignored. Any other uses will throw an error. This option allows to
put both IPv4 and IPv6 rules in a single rule file for use with both iptables-restore
and ip6tables-restore.
[!] -p, --protocol protocol
The protocol of the rule or of the packet to check. The specified protocol can be one
of tcp, udp, udplite, icmp, esp, ah, sctp or the special keyword "all", or it can be a
numeric value, representing one of these protocols or a different one. A protocol
name from /etc/protocols is also allowed. A "!" argument before the protocol inverts
the test. The number zero is equivalent to all. "all" will match with all protocols
and is taken as default when this option is omitted.
[!] -s, --source address[/mask][,...]
Source specification. Address can be either a network name, a hostname, a network IP
address (with /mask), or a plain IP address. Hostnames will be resolved once only,
before the rule is submitted to the kernel. Please note that specifying any name to
be resolved with a remote query such as DNS is a really bad idea. The mask can be
either a network mask or a plain number, specifying the number of 1's at the left side
of the network mask. Thus, a mask of 24 is equivalent to 255.255.255.0. A "!" argu-
ment before the address specification inverts the sense of the address. The flag --src
is an alias for this option. Multiple addresses can be specified, but this will
expand to multiple rules (when adding with -A), or will cause multiple rules to be
deleted (with -D).
[!] -d, --destination address[/mask][,...]
Destination specification. See the description of the -s (source) flag for a detailed
description of the syntax. The flag --dst is an alias for this option.
-m, --match match
Specifies a match to use, that is, an extension module that tests for a specific prop-
erty. The set of matches make up the condition under which a target is invoked.
Matches are evaluated first to last as specified on the command line and work in
short-circuit fashion, i.e. if one extension yields false, evaluation will stop.
-j, --jump target
This specifies the target of the rule; i.e., what to do if the packet matches it. The
target can be a user-defined chain (other than the one this rule is in), one of the
special builtin targets which decide the fate of the packet immediately, or an exten-
sion (see EXTENSIONS below). If this option is omitted in a rule (and -g is not
used), then matching the rule will have no effect on the packet's fate, but the coun-
ters on the rule will be incremented.
-g, --goto chain
This specifies that the processing should continue in a user specified chain. Unlike
the --jump option return will not continue processing in this chain but instead in the
chain that called us via --jump.
[!] -i, --in-interface name
Name of an interface via which a packet was received (only for packets entering the
INPUT, FORWARD and PREROUTING chains). When the "!" argument is used before the
interface name, the sense is inverted. If the interface name ends in a "+", then any
interface which begins with this name will match. If this option is omitted, any
interface name will match.
[!] -o, --out-interface name
Name of an interface via which a packet is going to be sent (for packets entering the
FORWARD, OUTPUT and POSTROUTING chains). When the "!" argument is used before the
interface name, the sense is inverted. If the interface name ends in a "+", then any
interface which begins with this name will match. If this option is omitted, any
interface name will match.
[!] -f, --fragment
This means that the rule only refers to second and further fragments of fragmented
packets. Since there is no way to tell the source or destination ports of such a
packet (or ICMP type), such a packet will not match any rules which specify them.
When the "!" argument precedes the "-f" flag, the rule will only match head fragments,
or unfragmented packets.
-c, --set-counters packets bytes
This enables the administrator to initialize the packet and byte counters of a rule
(during INSERT, APPEND, REPLACE operations).
OTHER OPTIONS
The following additional options can be specified:
-v, --verbose
Verbose output. This option makes the list command show the interface name, the rule
options (if any), and the TOS masks. The packet and byte counters are also listed,
with the suffix 'K', 'M' or 'G' for 1000, 1,000,000 and 1,000,000,000 multipliers
respectively (but see the -x flag to change this). For appending, insertion, deletion
and replacement, this causes detailed information on the rule or rules to be printed.
-v may be specified multiple times to possibly emit more detailed debug statements.
-w, --wait
Wait for the xtables lock. To prevent multiple instances of the program from running
concurrently, an attempt will be made to obtain an exclusive lock at launch. By
default, the program will exit if the lock cannot be obtained. This option will make
the program wait until the exclusive lock can be obtained.
-n, --numeric
Numeric output. IP addresses and port numbers will be printed in numeric format. By
default, the program will try to display them as host names, network names, or ser-
vices (whenever applicable).
-x, --exact
Expand numbers. Display the exact value of the packet and byte counters, instead of
only the rounded number in K's (multiples of 1000) M's (multiples of 1000K) or G's
(multiples of 1000M). This option is only relevant for the -L command.
--line-numbers
When listing rules, add line numbers to the beginning of each rule, corresponding to
that rule's position in the chain.
--modprobe=command
When adding or inserting rules into a chain, use command to load any necessary modules
(targets, match extensions, etc).
MATCH AND TARGET EXTENSIONS
iptables can use extended packet matching and target modules. A list of these is available
in the iptables-extensions(8) manpage.
DIAGNOSTICS
Various error messages are printed to standard error. The exit code is 0 for correct func-
tioning. Errors which appear to be caused by invalid or abused command line parameters cause
an exit code of 2, and other errors cause an exit code of 1.
BUGS
Bugs? What's this? ;-) Well, you might want to have a look at http://bugzilla.netfilter.org/
COMPATIBILITY WITH IPCHAINS
This iptables is very similar to ipchains by Rusty Russell. The main difference is that the
chains INPUT and OUTPUT are only traversed for packets coming into the local host and origi-
nating from the local host respectively. Hence every packet only passes through one of the
three chains (except loopback traffic, which involves both INPUT and OUTPUT chains); previ-
ously a forwarded packet would pass through all three.
The other main difference is that -i refers to the input interface; -o refers to the output
interface, and both are available for packets entering the FORWARD chain.
The various forms of NAT have been separated out; iptables is a pure packet filter when using
the default `filter' table, with optional extension modules. This should simplify much of
the previous confusion over the combination of IP masquerading and packet filtering seen pre-
viously. So the following options are handled differently:
-j MASQ
-M -S
-M -L
There are several other changes in iptables.
SEE ALSO
iptables-apply(8), iptables-save(8), iptables-restore(8), iptables-extensions(8),
ip6tables(8), ip6tables-save(8), ip6tables-restore(8), libipq(3).
The packet-filtering-HOWTO details iptables usage for packet filtering, the NAT-HOWTO details
NAT, the netfilter-extensions-HOWTO details the extensions that are not in the standard dis-
tribution, and the netfilter-hacking-HOWTO details the netfilter internals.
See http://www.netfilter.org/.
AUTHORS
Rusty Russell originally wrote iptables, in early consultation with Michael Neuling.
Marc Boucher made Rusty abandon ipnatctl by lobbying for a generic packet selection framework
in iptables, then wrote the mangle table, the owner match, the mark stuff, and ran around
doing cool stuff everywhere.
James Morris wrote the TOS target, and tos match.
Jozsef Kadlecsik wrote the REJECT target.
Harald Welte wrote the ULOG and NFQUEUE target, the new libiptc, as well as the TTL, DSCP,
ECN matches and targets.
The Netfilter Core Team is: Marc Boucher, Martin Josefsson, Yasuyuki Kozakai, Jozsef Kadlec-
sik, Patrick McHardy, James Morris, Pablo Neira Ayuso, Harald Welte and Rusty Russell.
Man page originally written by Herve Eychenne <rv@wallfire.org>.
VERSION
This manual page applies to iptables 1.4.20.
iptables 1.4.20 IPTABLES(8)
linux:~$
linux:~$
linux:~$
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