Filtering chain and policy for iptables -L

[imagenesis]

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.

[Lazydog]

Man iptables is your friend

[sinusoid]

So - depending on what you want to see, you can specify by the table you want.

iptables -t nat -L

will show you prerouting postrouting and something else,

iptables -t filter -L will show you those under the filter tables

I am a newbie but I think this might answer your question. I learned these from my friend the man page

[parth_ec447]

type command like : iptables -t TABLE-NAME -L CHAIN-NAME

In this TABLE-NAME = nat, filter etc....
CHAIN-NAME = name of the chain for that particular TABLE-NAME.

example: iptables -t nat -L OUTPUT

which only show the output chain for the nat table.

enjoy.