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From: jorge alonso <livebrain@gmail.com>
Subject: Fwd: iptables & ifconfig wrong packet accounting
Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2004 06:53:56 +0000
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isnt that only used at the beginning, when dhcp obtain the ip ? 
i dont understand the arp dhcp process :(



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From: Jason Opperisano <opie@817west.com>
Date: Mon, 13 Dec 2004 16:04:22 -0500
Subject: Re: iptables & ifconfig wrong packet accounting
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On Mon, 2004-12-13 at 01:21, jorge alonso wrote:


> i'm trying to do traffic accounting with iptables but the received
> packets from iptables (iptables -L -v) and packets from ifconfig dont
> match.
> ifconfig counts more packets is it normal ?

my guess would be that 'ifconfig' counts packets such as arp and dhcp
requests/replies that never make it up to the netfilter hooks.

-j

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