SYNOPSIS
       iptables-restore [-c] [-n]

DESCRIPTION
       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

       -c, --counters
              restore the values of all packet and byte counters

       -n, --noflush
              don't flush the previous contents of the table.  If  not  speci-
              fied,  iptables-restore  flushes (deletes) all previous contents
              of the respective IP Table.

BUGS
       None known as of iptables-1.2.1 release

AUTHOR
       Harald Welte <laforge@gnumonks.org>

SEE ALSO
       iptables-save(8), iptables(8)

       The iptables-HOWTO, which details more iptables usage,  the  NAT-HOWTO,
       which  details  NAT,  and the netfilter-hacking-HOWTO which details the
       internals.