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From: Henrik Nordstrom <hno@marasystems.com>
Subject: Re: iptables bad byte counter?!?
Date: Wed, 5 Jun 2002 21:29:54 +0200
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Torge Szczepanek wrote:

> I am getting byte counters like this:
>
> 18446744073707058701

Very much looks like a negative number.. the above is the same as 64 bit 
integer -2492915 printed as a unsigned value.

> The byte counters differ (18446744073707 is mostly the same) so I think
> this might be an overflow of a (longint?!?) counter.

Very unlikely as it is 64 bits in size and unsigned..

Regards
Henrik