NAME¶

iptables-restore — Restore IP Tables

SYNOPSIS¶

iptables-restore [-c] [-n] [-T name]

DESCRIPTION¶

iptables-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

-n, --noflush

don't flush the previous contents of the table. If not specified, iptables-restore flushes (deletes) all previous contents of the respective IP Table.

-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 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.