Filtering chain and policy for iptables -L

[flysarescary]

Is it possible to only view certain chains and more specifically certain chain policies with options when doing:

iptables -L

I would like for example view FORWARD ACCEPT rules instead of waiting for all of the drop rules to load when viewing a firewalled iptables.

 

[uplinked]

from `iptables --help`:

  --list    -L [chain [rulenum]]
                List the rules in a chain or all chains

so maybe you want `iptables -L FORWARD` ??

 

[flysarescary]

from `iptables --help`:

  --list    -L [chain [rulenum]]
                List the rules in a chain or all chains

so maybe you want `iptables -L FORWARD` ??

thanks did not pay attention to that in the man page

 

[SeanW]

thanks did not pay attention to that in the man page

You mentioned it took a while to load... That could be because of the reverse DNS that iptables does by default. Try -n which will speed things up considerably if that's the case.

Sean