On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 5:29 PM, James G. Sack (jim) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>  service iptables status
> gives a nicely formated report, from which one may decide how to compose
> a delete command, and with which one may confirm the delete.

I prefer 'iptables -Lv', myself.

> For example
>  iptables -t nat -D PREROUTING 1
> deletes rulenum 1 in the nat table of the PREROUTING block
>  (is 'block' the right term?)

PREROUTING is a chain within the 'nat' table.

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