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 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. 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 obtain 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 exclusive lock can be obtained.
-M, --modprobe modprobe
Specify the path to the modprobe(8) 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.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.