| .TH IPTABLES-RESTORE 8 "Jan 04, 2001" "" "" |
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| .\" Man page written by Harald Welte <laforge@gnumonks.org> |
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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 |
| None known as of iptables-1.2.1 release |
| .SH AUTHOR |
| Harald Welte <laforge@gnumonks.org> |
| .SH SEE ALSO |
| .BR iptables-save "(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. |