IPTABLES-RESTORE

NAME

iptables-restore — Restore IP Tables

ip6tables-restore — Restore IPv6 Tables

SYNOPSIS

iptables−restore [−chntv] [−M modprobe]

ip6tables−restore [−chntv] [−M modprobe] [−T name]

DESCRIPTION

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.

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−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.