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From: Steven M Campbell <Netfilter@SCampbell.net>
To: netfilter@lists.netfilter.org
Subject: Re: Accounting with iptables vs. snmp
Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2005 15:26:49 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <426E95F9.9090402@SCampbell.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200504261345.45177.S.Guenther@in-put.de>

Stefan-Michael. Guenther (in-put GbR) wrote:

>Hi,
>
>using iptables I have setup a traffic accounting on one of our client's 
>gateways:
>
>iptables -A INPUT -i $WAN -j LOG --log-level debug
>iptables -A OUTPUT -o $WAN -j LOG --log-level debug
>iptables -A FORWARD -j LOG --log-level debug
>
>  
>
SNMP will record arps and other traffic that hits the nic regardless of 
it being directed to that machine or not, iptables (above) will not.   
The numbers will likely always be different, I am surprised that 
iptables would ever report more data being processed than snmp would.



  parent reply	other threads:[~2005-04-26 19:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-04-26 11:45 Accounting with iptables vs. snmp Stefan-Michael. Guenther (in-put GbR)
2005-04-26 14:15 ` Richard Hauswald
2005-04-26 19:26 ` Steven M Campbell [this message]
     [not found] <0MKsEO-1DQUpM3MdQ-00057r@mxeu13.kundenserver.de>
2005-04-26 19:17 ` Stefan-Michael. Guenther (in-put GbR)
2005-04-26 22:32   ` Richard Hauswald

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