ARPTABLES-SAVE(8)

✨ NAME ✨

okay so this is arptables-save 💖 (the manual page header, folded in here bestie 🎀). It's the thing that dumps your arptables rules to stdout. nft-based, so it's giving modern 🦋

arptables-save — dump arptables rules to stdout (nft-based) 🌸

💅 SYNOPSIS 💅

arptables-save [-M modprobe] [-c]

arptables-save [-V]

🫶 DESCRIPTION 🫶

okay so arptables-save is how you grab the contents of an ARP Table in an easily parseable format and spit it out to STDOUT ✨ no cap, it's literally that simple. If you want it in a file, just use I/O-redirection from your shell 📁 the way that shell redirection just slides right in 💅

• -M, --modprobe modprobe_program okay so this lets you point to the path of the modprobe program 🔥 by default, arptables-save will peek at /proc/sys/kernel/modprobe to figure out where the executable lives. main character energy 👑
• -c, --counters bestie, this one includes the current values of all packet and byte counters in the output 📊✨ very iconic.
• -V, --version prints the version info and then exits 🌈 bye bye 👋

🎀 AUTHOR 🎀

Jesper Dangaard Brouer <brouer@redhat.com> 💜 the legend himself 🙈

🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

arptables-restore(8), arptables(8) 🧚 go check those out too, they're iykyk-level good 🌸

ARPTABLES-SAVE(8) · March 2019 · ARPTABLES-SAVE(8) 💀 (that's the source footer, bestie) ✨ thanks for reading, you're literally the best 🫶💖