Man page written by Harald Welte <laforge@gnumonks.org>
It is based on the iptables man page.

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iptables-restore \(em Restore IP Tables iptables-restore [-c] [-n] [-T name]

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 specified, iptables-restore flushes (deletes) all previous contents of the respective table.

-T, --table name Restore only the named table even if the input stream contains other ones.

None known as of iptables-1.2.1 release Harald Welte <laforge@gnumonks.org> 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.