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-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.