Name

ipchains-restore

Synopsis

ipchains-restore [options]

Description

System administration command. Restore firewall rules. ipchains-restore takes commands generated by ipchains-save and uses them to restore the firewall rules for each chain. Often used by initialization scripts to restore firewall settings on boot.

Options

-f

Force updates of existing chains without asking.

-v

Print rules as they are being restored.

-p

If a nonexisting chain is targeted by a rule, create it.

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