iptables-restore — Restore IP Tables
ip6tables-restore — Restore IPv6 Tables
iptables-restore [
-chntvV] [
-w secs] [
-W
usecs] [
-M modprobe] [
-T name] [
file]
ip6tables-restore [
-chntvV] [
-w secs] [
-W
usecs] [
-M modprobe] [
-T name] [
file]
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 argument.
-
-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.
Specify multiple times to increase debug level.
-
-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.
-
-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.
None known as of iptables-1.2.1 release
Harald Welte <
[email protected]> wrote iptables-restore based on code
from Rusty Russell.
Andras Kis-Szabo <
[email protected]> contributed ip6tables-restore.
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.