iptables-restore (8)
NAME
iptables-restore --- Restore IP Tablesip6tables-restore --- Restore IPv6 Tables
SYNOPSIS
iptables-restore [-chntv] [-M modprobe]ip6tables-restore [-chntv] [-M modprobe] [-T name]
DESCRIPTION
iptables-restore and ip6tables-restore are used to restore IP and IPv6 Tables from data specified on STDIN. Use I/O redirection provided by your shell to read from a file
- -c, --counters
- restore the values of all packet and byte counters
- -h, --help
- Print a short option summary.
- -n, --noflush
- don't flush the previous contents of the table. If not specified, both commands flush (delete) all previous contents of the respective table.
- -t, --test
- Only parse and construct the ruleset, but do not commit it.
- -v, --verbose
- Print additional debug info during ruleset processing.
- -M, --modprobe modprobe_program
- Specify the path to the modprobe program. By default, iptables-restore will inspect /proc/sys/kernel/modprobe to determine the executable's path.
- -T, --table name
- Restore only the named table even if the input stream contains other ones.
BUGS
None known as of iptables-1.2.1 releaseAUTHORS
Harald Welte <laforge@gnumonks.org> wrote iptables-restore based on code from Rusty Russell.Andras Kis-Szabo <kisza@sch.bme.hu> contributed ip6tables-restore.
SEE ALSO
iptables-apply(8),iptables-save(8), iptables(8)The iptables-HOWTO, which details more iptables usage, the NAT-HOWTO, which details NAT, and the netfilter-hacking-HOWTO which details the internals.