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Viewing the effective iptables rules

You can check the status of the iptables program, and view the iptables rules currently being enforced on your machine from a terminal window command line.

Note

Root privileges is required for the iptables commands. In this document, examples show the use of sudo.

Checking the iptables service

The following commands are used to determine the running state of iptables.

Platform Command
RHEL and Fedora
sudo /sbin/service iptables status
OCDC
sudo /etc/init.d/iptables status

Viewing the current iptables rules

The following commands will display the currently effective firewall rules in the terminal window.

Platform Command
RHEL and Fedora
sudo /sbin/service iptables -L
OCDC
sudo iptables -L

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