On Thu, 2 May 2002, Glover George wrote:

> Is there anyway to do this.  I would like from a userspace program to
> ask netfilter two different things.
> 
> 1).  What is the policy on a give chain.  I want to ask netfilter is
> their Forward policy DROP or ACCEPT or whatever.  Can I do this from
> userspace, and how.

iptables -L -n -x -v | grep '^Chain INPUT' | sed -e 's/.*policy //' -e 's/ .*//'
        repeat for the FORWARD and OUTPUT.
        Cheers,
        - Bill

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