IPTABLES-RESTORE(8) iptables 1.8.5 IPTABLES-RESTORE(8)
NAME
iptables-restore -- Restore IP Tables
ip6tables-restore -- Restore IPv6 Tables
SYNOPSIS
iptables-restore [-chntvV] [-w secs] [-W usecs] [-M modprobe] [-T name]
[file]
ip6tables-restore [-chntvV] [-w secs] [-W usecs] [-M modprobe] [-T
name] [file]
DESCRIPTION
iptables-restore and ip6tables-restore are used to restore IP and IPv6
Tables from data specified on STDIN or in file. Use I/O redirection
provided by your shell to read from a file or specify file as an argu-
ment.
-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, 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.
-V, --version
Print the program version number.
-w, --wait [seconds]
Wait for the xtables lock. To prevent multiple instances of the
program from running concurrently, an attempt will be made to
obtain an exclusive lock at launch. By default, the program
will exit if the lock cannot be obtained. This option will make
the program wait (indefinitely or for optional seconds) until
the exclusive lock can be obtained.
-W, --wait-interval microseconds
Interval to wait per each iteration. When running latency sen-
sitive applications, waiting for the xtables lock for extended
durations may not be acceptable. This option will make each it-
eration take the amount of time specified. The default interval
is 1 second. This option only works with -w.
-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.
iptables 1.8.5 IPTABLES-RESTORE(8)