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IPTABLES-RESTORE 8 "Jan 04, 2001" "" ""

Man page written by Harald Welte <laforge (at] gnumonks.org>
It is based on the iptables man page.

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NAME
iptables-restore \(em Restore IP Tables
SYNOPSIS
iptables-restore [-chntv] [-M modprobe] [-T name]
DESCRIPTION

iptables-restore is used to restore IP 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, iptables-restore flushes (deletes) 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 release
AUTHOR
Harald Welte <laforge (at] gnumonks.org>
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.