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

iptables will list packet and byte counters if you specify option -v for verbose, e.g. iptables -vL. Likewise iptables-save will list all entries including the mentioned counters for each chain, but not for each table entry (on some systems iptables-save requires option -c to include counters).