man 8 IPTABLES-RESTORE

IPTABLES-RESTORE(8)             iptables 1.8.10            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
       These  tools are deprecated in Red Hat Enterprise Linux. They are main-
       tenance only and will not receive new features. New setups  should  use
       nft(8).   Existing  setups  should migrate to nft(8) when possible. See
       <https://red.ht/nft_your_tables>  for  details.  There  is  also  ipta-
       bles-restore-translate(8)/ip6tables-restore-translate(8)  to  help with
       the migration.

       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.  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, ipta-
              bles-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), nft(8), iptables-re-
       store-translate(8), ip6tables-restore-translate(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 1.8.10                                            IPTABLES-RESTORE(8)