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From: Joel Newkirk <netfilter@newkirk.us>
To: "'netfilter@lists.netfilter.org'" <netfilter@lists.netfilter.org>
Subject: Re: intermittent and unreliable behaviour with iptables scripts
Date: Wed, 13 Nov 2002 15:21:21 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200211131521.21313.netfilter@newkirk.us> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1037200566.4557.37.camel@rayw.knowledgefactory.co.za>

On Wednesday 13 November 2002 10:16 am, Raymond Leach wrote:
> On Wed, 2002-11-13 at 16:34, Doug Watson wrote:
> > what does the (policy ACCEPT 4 packets, 284 bytes) mean?
> > Chain OUTPUT (policy ACCEPT 4 packets, 284 bytes)
>
> It means that the default policy for the OUTPUT chain is to accept
> packets and that there have been 4 packets totalling 284 bytes tested
> against this chain.

Actually, this tells us that 4 packets totalling 284 bytes made it through the 
output chain rules and were ACCEPTED by policy rather than a rule.  If an 
earlier rule in the chain led to an ACCEPT or a DROP or RETURN then it will 
NOT be counted here, but only in the rule(s) it matched.

> > Is that the total number of packets to traverse the OUTPUT
> > chain or it he number of packets ACCEPTED by the policy for the
> > OUTPUT chain? Or something else?
>
> As above ...

j


  reply	other threads:[~2002-11-13 20:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-11-13 14:34 intermittent and unreliable behaviour with iptables scripts Doug Watson
2002-11-13 15:16 ` Raymond Leach
2002-11-13 20:21   ` Joel Newkirk [this message]
2002-11-13 18:13 ` Dax Kelson
2002-11-14 18:28   ` ICMP question Luis Fernando Barrera
2002-11-14 21:47     ` Darrell F. Dieringer
2002-11-24 16:34       ` Nick Drage
2002-11-15  1:59     ` Joel Newkirk
2002-11-13 22:47 ` intermittent and unreliable behaviour with iptables scripts alex
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-12-09 16:15 Doug Watson
2002-11-15 15:14 Doug Watson
2002-11-13 15:01 Doug Watson
2002-11-13 14:53 Doug Watson
2002-11-13 14:35 Doug Watson
2002-11-11 17:25 Doug Watson
2002-11-11 23:19 ` alex
2002-11-12  0:10 ` Anders Fugmann
2002-11-12  6:30 ` Joel Newkirk

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