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Man page written by Harald Welte <laforge (at] gnumonks.org> It is based on the iptables man page. This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA. NAME
iptables-restore \(em Restore IP Tables
ip6tables-restore \(em Restore IPv6 Tables
SYNOPSIS
iptables-restore [
-chntv] [
-M modprobe]
[
-T name] [
file]
ip6tables-restore [-chntv] [-M modprobe]
[-T name] [file]
DESCRIPTION
iptables-restore and
ip6tables-restore are used to restore IP and IPv6 Tables from data specified on STDIN or in
file. Use I/O redirection provided by your shell to read from a file or
specify file as an argument.
-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 release
AUTHORS
Harald Welte <laforge (at] gnumonks.org> wrote iptables-restore based on code
from Rusty Russell.
Andras Kis-Szabo <kisza (at] sch.bme.hu> 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.