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@@ -158,6 +158,13 @@ tentative " | " deprecated " | " dadfailed " | " temporary " ]"
.I SELECTOR
.ti -8
+.BR "ip route save"
+.I SELECTOR
+
+.ti -8
+.BR "ip route restore"
+
+.ti -8
.B ip route get
.IR ADDRESS " [ "
.BI from " ADDRESS " iif " STRING"
@@ -1958,6 +1965,21 @@ however, no packets are actually sent. With the
argument, the kernel pretends that a packet arrived from this interface
and searches for a path to forward the packet.
+.SS ip route save - save routing table information to stdout
+this command behaves like
+.BR "ip route show"
+except that the output is raw data suitable for passing to
+.BR "ip route restore" .
+
+.SS ip route restore - restore routing table information from stdin
+this command expects to read a data stream as returned from
+.BR "ip route save" .
+It will attempt to restore the routing table information exactly as
+it was at the time of the save, so any translation of information
+in the stream (such as device indexes) must be done first. Any existing
+routes are left unchanged. Any routes specified in the data stream that
+already exist in the table will be ignored.
+
.SH ip rule - routing policy database management
.BR "Rule" s