Re: Place for ipt_ACCOUNT/ipt_NETFLOW

[Srinivasa T N <seenutn@linux.vnet.ibm.com>]

On Saturday 05 February 2011 09:08 AM, Grant Taylor wrote:
> On 02/03/11 23:22, Srinivasa T N wrote:
>> But adding rules to discard the unwanted traffic and then do an
>> accounting for the rest of the packets in not a good idea. I may not
>> even know what type of packets may arrive and writing rules to discard
>> each of unwanted packets is difficult. So, I prefer to write rules to
>> accept only the packets that are required and then drop the other
>> packets. I wanted to do the accounting only for packets that I accept.
>
> Do the accounting on the rules that you write to decide what traffic to
> accept.
>
This will double the number of rules a packet has to traverse (One rule 
for accounting and one rule for accept).  Is there are other alternative?

Regards,
Seenu.