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From: Mart Frauenlob <mart.frauenlob@chello.at>
Subject: Re: Help deleting a rule
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 2009 22:45:35 +0100
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Cameron Smith wrote:
> Hello,
>
> If I run:
> iptables -L -n -v |grep xx.xx.xx.xx
>
> I get:
> 112  6272 DROP       all  --  eth+   *       xx.xx.xx.xx         0.0.0.0/0
>
> I want to delete this specific rule.
> >From what is printed above how do I know what line this is to use this command?
>
> iptables -D INPUT x
>
> Where x is the line number?
>   

iptables -h

look for --line-numbers