IPTABLES-RESTORE(8) manual page
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iptables-restore -- Restore IP Tables
ip6tables-restore
-- Restore IPv6 Tables
iptables-restore [-chntv] [-M modprobe]
ip6tables-restore
[-chntv] [-M modprobe] [-T name]
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 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.
None known as of
iptables-1.2.1 release
Harald Welte <laforge@gnumonks.org> wrote iptables-restore
based on code from Rusty Russell.
Andras Kis-Szabo <kisza@sch.bme.hu> contributed ip6tables-restore.
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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