Linux: iptables: Removing a collection of iptables rules at once

Here is a small trick for removing several iptables rules at once,

Let's assume we would like to add some rules:

iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -o eth1 -j MASQUERADE

I can use the comment match and add a comment to this line:

iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -o eth1 -j MASQUERADE -m comment --comment "SOME_COMMENT"

Now, cleaning all the relevant rules in a simple command would be:

# iptables-save | grep -v SOME_COMMENT | iptables-restore

 Probably not the best way to do it, but it's simple and fast.

Have fun,

-Tal Kain