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From: John Holman <jaholman@eastax.com>
Subject: Re: Accuracy of packet counting?
Date: Sun, 26 May 2002 08:16:55 +1000
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To: Harald Welte <laforge@gnumonks.org>
Cc: John Holman <mail@john.holman.name>, netfilter@lists.samba.org



Harald Welte wrote:
> 
> On Fri, May 17, 2002 at 08:39:39AM +1000, John Holman wrote:
> > My question:
> >
> > Is there ANY reason to suppose that the ACCOUNTING total is not an
> > accurate count of all IP traffic into and out of eth0?
> 
> yes, since you only count locally-generated and locally-targeted traffic,
> not the traffic forwarded by your machine.
> 
> use your accounting rules in the mangle table (PREROUTING and POSTROUTING)
> to cover all traffic.
> 


Thank you for that, Harald, it was a RTFM problem :(

[I eventually managed to work out the reason for the discrepancies
byself, by checking against a detailed traffic report supplied by my
ISP.]

-- 
Best regards,
John Holman
Eastax WWW
Melbourne, Australia