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+.TH IPTABLES-RESTORE 8 "" "@PACKAGE_STRING@" "@PACKAGE_STRING@"
+.\"
+.\" Man page written by Harald Welte <laforge@gnumonks.org>
+.\" It is based on the iptables man page.
+.\"
+.\" This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
+.\" it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+.\" the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
+.\" (at your option) any later version.
+.\"
+.\" This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+.\" but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+.\" MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
+.\" GNU General Public License for more details.
+.\"
+.\" You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+.\" along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
+.\" Foundation, Inc., 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.
+.\"
+.\"
+.SH NAME
+iptables-restore \(em Restore IP Tables
+.P
+ip6tables-restore \(em Restore IPv6 Tables
+.SH SYNOPSIS
+\fBiptables\-restore\fP [\fB\-chntv\fP] [\fB\-M\fP \fImodprobe\fP]
+.P
+\fBip6tables\-restore\fP [\fB\-chntv\fP] [\fB\-M\fP \fImodprobe\fP]
+[\fB\-T\fP \fIname\fP]
+.SH DESCRIPTION
+.PP
+.B iptables-restore
+and
+.B ip6tables-restore
+are used to restore IP and IPv6 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\-h\fP, \fB\-\-help\fP
+Print a short option summary.
+.TP
+\fB\-n\fR, \fB\-\-noflush\fR
+don't flush the previous contents of the table. If not specified,
+both commands flush (delete) all previous contents of the respective table.
+.TP
+\fB\-t\fP, \fB\-\-test\fP
+Only parse and construct the ruleset, but do not commit it.
+.TP
+\fB\-v\fP, \fB\-\-verbose\fP
+Print additional debug info during ruleset processing.
+.TP
+\fB\-M\fP, \fB\-\-modprobe\fP \fImodprobe_program\fP
+Specify the path to the modprobe program. By default, iptables-restore will
+inspect /proc/sys/kernel/modprobe to determine the executable's path.
+.TP
+\fB\-T\fP, \fB\-\-table\fP \fIname\fP
+Restore only the named table even if the input stream contains other ones.
+.SH BUGS
+None known as of iptables-1.2.1 release
+.SH AUTHORS
+Harald Welte <laforge@gnumonks.org> wrote iptables-restore based on code
+from Rusty Russell.
+.br
+Andras Kis-Szabo <kisza@sch.bme.hu> contributed ip6tables-restore.
+.SH SEE ALSO
+\fBiptables\-save\fP(8), \fBiptables\fP(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.