Manual: iptables-restore

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 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/mod‐
	      probe 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  wrote iptables-restore based on code from Rusty Russell.
       Andras Kis-Szabo  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.

iptables 1.8.11												 IPTABLES-RESTORE(8)