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Subject: Re: IP Acounting Idea for 2.5
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Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2001 12:29:30 +0200
From: Olaf Titz <olaf@bigred.inka.de>
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> Umm, no.  Counters can be resetable - you just specify that accounting
> programs should not reset them, ever.
>
> The ability to reset counters is extremely useful if you're a human
> looking at the output of iptables -L -v.  (I thus far know of no one
> who can memorise the counter values for around 40 rules).

You'll get bogus accounting results unless you stop/restart the
accounting programs every time you manually deal with the counters.
This sounds dangerously easy to make mistakes to me.

Olaf

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