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 < [email protected] > wrote iptables-restore based on code from Rusty Russell.
Andras Kis-Szabo <[email protected]> contributed ip6tables-restore.