How can I check the hit count for each rule in iptables?

Question

I want to know how can I find out which rule was accessed and how many times, from the access list I have created using iptables.

My firewall has over 1000 input and ou

Answer 1

I use the following to check on my iptables rules:

iptables -nvL [INPUT|FORWARD|OUTPUT|myCHAINNAME] --line-numbers | less

The -n speeds up the process by not doing hostname lookups

The line numbers help with deleting rules:

iptables -D [INPUT|FORWARD|OUTPUT|myCHAINNAME] [Rule#]

HTH