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@@ -44,10 +44,17 @@ 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.
+.PP
+.B iptables-restore
+does only restore the counter values of the builtin chains, and
+.B NOT
+the individual counters of each rule.
.SH AUTHOR
Harald Welte <laforge@gnumonks.org>
.SH SEE ALSO