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From: "Steven Kath" <steven.kath@vyatta.com>
To: lists+netfilter@roth.lu, netfilter@vger.kernel.org
Subject: RE: viewing rules and traffic while inserting/removing rules
Date: Wed, 7 May 2008 13:01:07 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <090801c8b07c$fa084b60$5000040a@skathlaptop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4821E655.4010504@roth.lu>

Marc wrote:
> 
> Hi there,
> I have quite a large list of blacklisted networks in my iptables
> firewall, approx. 20,000.
> Now I have a script that updates this blacklist according to my needs
> every hour. My problem now is that during the update period (which
> consists of several iptables [-I|-D] $CHAIN -s ... -j ... commands) my
> traffic accounting is going haywire.
> I have narrowed it down to the problem that displaying the rules (from
> which I extract the traffic information via iptables -xvnL $CHAIN)
> intermittently shows 0s (zeroes) as paket and byte counters while the
> insert/delete commands are being issued.
> Is there a locking problem? Should I maybe report this to the devel
list?

Have you considered using netfilter's ip sets for this?  Sounds like it
might be perfect for your needs. 

http://www.netfilter.org/projects/ipset/ 


  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-05-07 20:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-05-07 17:26 viewing rules and traffic while inserting/removing rules lists+netfilter
2008-05-07 18:25 ` Jan Engelhardt
2008-05-07 20:01 ` Steven Kath [this message]
2008-05-07 21:29   ` lists+netfilter
2008-05-08 16:44   ` Grant Taylor
2008-05-08 17:17     ` lists+netfilter
2008-05-08 19:21       ` Grant Taylor

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