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From: Reindl Harald <h.reindl@thelounge.net>
Subject: Re: Reload IPtables
Date: Sun, 27 Jun 2021 20:57:35 +0200
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Am 27.06.21 um 20:32 schrieb slow_speed@att.net:
> As it turns out, I am learning two ways at once.  One is my desktop 
> computer running Debian 10 which used nftables (and I believe 
> nftables-persistent is built-in to the nftables mechanism).  The other 
> is a little Raspian server which is based on Debian 10, but does not use 
> nftables.

it's very distribution specific and that's why this is likely the wrong 
mailing list

> In the second case, one must reload iptables when changes are made to 
> it.  If I correctly understand, one must use sudo iptables -F

why do you think you need a manual flush?

> followed 
> by sudo iptables-restore < /etc/iptables.up.rules (or wherever they 
> are).  Doesn't it need the little left arrow/less-than sign?  Does that 
> sound correct?
why don't you at least show at the help output?

how does adding "<" make sense when the last param is already a file path?

[root@srv-rhsoft:~]$ iptables-restore --help
Usage: iptables-restore [-c] [-v] [-V] [-t] [-h] [-n] [-T table] [-M 
command] [-4] [-6] [file]
            [ --counters ]
            [ --verbose ]
            [ --version]
            [ --test ]
            [ --help ]
            [ --noflush ]
            [ --table=<TABLE> ]
            [ --modprobe=<command> ]
            [ --ipv4 ]