I installed iptables on a VPS (Virtual Private Server from openVZ) - Linux 2.6.32-24-pve #1 SMP Fri Sep 13 07:29:30 CEST 2013 i686 GNU/Linux.

I also installed: apt-get install iptables-persistent

Iptables status:

iptables -L -v

Chain INPUT (policy ACCEPT 96 packets, 4864 bytes) pkts bytes target     prot opt in     out     source               destination    

Chain FORWARD (policy ACCEPT 0 packets, 0 bytes) pkts bytes target     prot opt in     out     source               destination         

Chain OUTPUT (policy ACCEPT 297 packets, 11296 bytes) pkts bytes target     prot opt in     out     source               destination

I used these rules to generate the files rules.v4 as well as rules.v6 in /etc/iptables/.

ls -lisah /etc/iptables/

insgesamt 32K

82101653 4,0K drwxr-xr-x   2 root root 4,0K Feb 26 13:37 .

81218355 4,0K drwxr-xr-x 116 root root 4,0K Feb 26 13:37 ..

82100327 8,0K -rw-r--r--   1 root root 7,9K Feb 26 13:36 rules.v4

82101662 8,0K -rw-r--r--   1 root root 7,9K Feb 26 13:36 rules.v6

I rebooted the machine but same output from iptables -L as above.

I tried to iptables-restore < /etc/iptables/rules.v4 as well for rules.v6 but I get this:

iptables-restore: line 154 failed

(at 'COMMIT')

Any ideas where I took the wrong turn?