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From: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
Subject: Re: conntrack
Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2012 20:54:29 +0100
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On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 07:48:10AM -0500, Stephen Clark wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Does connection tracking keep any counters on number of packets/and
> or bytes that are
> associated with a connection? If so how does one access them?

echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_acct

Then, you can access them via:

conntrack -L