iptables not writing rules

Question

im running these two rules as root, but when doing a iptables -L it dosent show any rules, any one have an idea of what the problem can be?

iptables -A PREROUTING -t nat -i eth0 -p tcp --dport 80 --source 84.244.145.135 -j REDIRECT --to-port 1222
iptables -A PREROUTING -t nat -i eth0 -p tcp --dport 80 --source 243.134.97.194 -j REDIRECT --to-port 1222


duno@Virtual-Box:/home/glennwiz# iptables -L

Chain INPUT (policy ACCEPT)
target     prot opt source               destination

Chain FORWARD (policy ACCEPT)
target     prot opt source               destination

Chain OUTPUT (policy ACCEPT)
target     prot opt source               destination

Answer 1

you add them to nat talbe, and by default iptables lists filter table. to see what you added run:

iptables -t nat -nL