IPTABLES-RESTORE(8)IPTABLES-RESTORE(8)NAMEiptables-restore — Restore IP Tables
SYNOPSISiptables-restore [-chntv] [-M modprobe] [-T name]
DESCRIPTIONiptables-restore is used to restore IP 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 speci‐
fied, iptables-restore flushes (deletes) 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
AUTHOR
Harald Welte <laforge@gnumonks.org>
SEE ALSOiptables-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.
Jan 04, 2001 IPTABLES-RESTORE(8)