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From: Antony Stone <Antony@Soft-Solutions.co.uk>
Subject: Re: AW: IP Traffic Accounting / Own Chains
Date: Sat, 22 Jun 2002 16:18:07 +0100
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On Saturday 22 June 2002 4:18 pm, yomega wrote:

> OK so i do:
> iptables -N [CHAIN NAME]
> and then add rules for example this one:
> iptables -A [CHAIN NAME] -p tcp --dport 80 -j ACCEPT
> so now i've made some traffic on my webbie and typed in that:
>
> iptables -L -n -v -x
>
> now the list is printed :) INPUT and the other Chains are correct but this
> chain (my own one) didn count anything.

Did you put a rule anywhere which says

iptables -A FORWARD ....... -j [CHAIN NAME]

so that packets get fed into your new chain ?

 

Antony.