Re: IP Acounting Idea for 2.5

From: Russell King (rmk@arm.linux.org.uk)
Date: Mon Apr 16 2001 - 04:43:10 EST


On Mon, Apr 16, 2001 at 12:07:31PM +1000, Manfred Bartz wrote:
> There is another issue with logging in general:
>
> *COUNTERS MUST NOT BE RESETABLE!!!*

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).

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Russell King (rmk@arm.linux.org.uk)                The developer of ARM Linux
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