IPTABLES-RESTORE(8) iptables 1.4.21 IPTABLES-RESTORE(8)
NAME
iptables-restore — Restore IP Tables
ip6tables-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 pre‐
vious 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/ker‐
nel/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 release
AUTHORS
Harald Welte <[email protected]> wrote iptables-restore based on code from Rusty Russell.
Andras Kis-Szabo <[email protected]> contributed ip6tables-restore.
SEE ALSO
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.
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