Just FYI, I'm not in a hurry .. for now I did a little tweak to the iptables program and accomplished this. libiptc isn't in a stable state, right? On Wed, Jan 2, 2013 at 9:48 PM, Aaron Lewis <the.warl0ck.1989@xxxxxxxxx> 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. > > -- > Best Regards, > Aaron Lewis - PGP: 0xDFE6C29E ( http://pgp.mit.edu/ ) > Finger Print: 9482 448F C7C3 896C 1DFE 7DD3 2492 A7D0 DFE6 C29E -- Best Regards, Aaron Lewis - PGP: 0xDFE6C29E ( http://keyserver.veridis.com ) Finger Print: 9482 448F C7C3 896C 1DFE 7DD3 2492 A7D0 DFE6 C29E -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netfilter" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html