IPTABLES-RESTORE(8) iptables 1.8.11 IPTABLES-RESTORE(8)
NAME
iptables-restore — Restore IP Tables
ip6tables-restore — Restore IPv6 Tables
SYNOPSIS
iptables-restore [-chntvV] [-w seconds] [-M modprobe] [-T name] [file]
ip6tables-restore [-chntvV] [-w seconds] [-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 pro-
vided 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 respec-
tive table.
-t, --test
Only parse and construct the ruleset, but do not commit it.
-v, --verbose
Print additional debug info during ruleset processing. Specify
multiple times to increase debug level.
-V, --version
Print the program version number.
-w, --wait [seconds]
Wait for the xtables lock. To prevent multiple instances of the
program from running concurrently, an attempt will be made to ob-
tain an exclusive lock at launch. By default, the program will
exit if the lock cannot be obtained. This option will make the
program wait (indefinitely or for optional seconds) until the ex-
clusive lock can be obtained.
-M, --modprobe modprobe
Specify the path to the modprobe(8) program. By default, ipta-
bles-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@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 in-
ternals.
iptables 1.8.11 IPTABLES-RESTORE(8)
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