From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jan Vales Subject: Re: [SOLVED] Re: Native support of counting rules? Date: Thu, 03 Jan 2013 15:56:50 +0100 Message-ID: <50E59C32.5090003@jvales.net> References: <20130102134421.GA17997@devnull> <50E43D07.50009@ngtech.co.il> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: Sender: netfilter-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: Aaron Lewis Cc: netfilter mailing list Hi, why dont you use ... iptables-save | grep "\-A" | wc -l lg ~Jan On 03/01/13 15:13, Aaron Lewis wrote: > Already checked the manual on my system ... there's no counting > support, the only thing relevant was --line-numbers, > > My code is here, for anyone who needed > > https://raw.github.com/CaledoniaProject/ipt_counting/master/ipt-count.c > > I just hope one day such feature would be included officially. > > > On Wed, Jan 2, 2013 at 9:58 PM, Eliezer Croitoru wrote: >> Hey Aaron, >> >> I feel kind of odd but this should answer you: >> http://linux.die.net/man/8/iptables >> www.garron.me/linux/iptables-manual.html >> >> Eliezer >> >> >> On 1/2/2013 3:48 PM, Aaron Lewis wrote: >>> >>> Hi, >>> I want to know if I could get how many rules are present, i.e in >>> filter table? >>> >>> Now I do `iptables -L | wc -l` like stuff, I know it's not right, >>> but iptables itself doesn't seem to count rules anyway. >>> >>> I need this just to let user to know how many rules are present, >>> without root privileges, and now being able to view actual rules. >>> >> > > >