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To: netfilter@vger.kernel.org
Subject: viewing rules and traffic while inserting/removing rules
Date: Wed, 07 May 2008 19:26:45 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4821E655.4010504@roth.lu> (raw)

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?
Regards,
Marc

             reply	other threads:[~2008-05-07 17:26 UTC|newest]

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