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sourav c.
Asked: 2015-06-14 10:25:02 +0800 CST

Options missing from iptable man page

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I was looking at iptables man pages. But I did not find anything about --sport and --dport.

  • --sport is short for --source-port

  • --dport is short for --destination-port

Why are those options missing from Ubuntu manpages? I also looked at

iptables --help
info iptables
iptables

1 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    --source-port and -destination-port (and their short forms) are provided by the tcp extension (and some other extensions). Extensions are documented in the iptables-extensions man page.

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