IPTABLES-RESTORE(8)		iptables 1.8.11		   IPTABLES-RESTORE(8)

NAME
       iptables-restore — Restore IP Tables

       ip6tables-restore — Restore IPv6 Tables

SYNOPSIS
       iptables-restore [-chntvV] [-w seconds] [-M modprobe] [-T name] [file]

       ip6tables-restore [-chntvV] [-w seconds] [-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
       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
	      Specify the path to the modprobe(8) 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 1.8.11						   IPTABLES-RESTORE(8)