iptable storage

hi,

can anyone tell me where iptables stores data that it displays on screen when we invoke iptable -vL command.

as we have ip_fwchains file for ipchains.

Have you checked the iptables man page?

ya , i have checked iptables man pages.

in it they give /etc/sysconfig/iptables

but when i see this files i couldn't see the no of bytes,pkts and source and destination.

and i also used iptables-save -c but in its output i could not get source and destination address.

tell me where this file resides?