.TH IPTABLES-RESTORE 8 "Jan 04, 2001" "" ""
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.SH NAME
iptables-restore \- Restore IP Tables
.SH SYNOPSIS
.BR "iptables-restore " "[-c] [-n]"
.br
.SH DESCRIPTION
.PP
.B 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
.TP
\fB\-c\fR, \fB\-\-counters\fR
restore the values of all packet and byte counters
.TP
\fB\-n\fR, \fB\-\-noflush\fR 
.TP
don't flush the previous contents of the table. If not specified, 
.B iptables-restore
flushes (deletes) all previous contents of the respective IP Table.
.SH BUGS
.B iptables-save
doesn't order user-defined chains and builtin chains in any specific manner.
This raises some dependency problems when using the unmodified output of 
.B iptables-restore
as input for
.B iptables-restore.
.PP
Expect this to be fixed in the next iptables release.
.PP
To make it work, reorder the output in a way that in every table, all 
user-defined chains are created before any other chain uses this chain
as target.
.SH AUTHOR
Harald Welte <laforge@gnumonks.org>
.SH SEE ALSO
.BR iptables-restore "(8), " iptables "(8) "
.PP
The iptables-HOWTO, which details more iptables usage, the NAT-HOWTO,
which details NAT, and the netfilter-hacking-HOWTO which details the
internals.