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* Re: conntrackd and counters
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@ 2009-03-30 18:19 ` Pablo Neira Ayuso
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From: Pablo Neira Ayuso @ 2009-03-30 18:19 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Sam Gardner; +Cc: netfilter

Hi Sam,

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Sam Gardner wrote:
> Hi Pablo,
> 
> I have just started using the conntrack tools. In particular, I am 
> running conntrackd to support failover. When I perform a conntrackd -c I 
> can see the connections I am expecting on the backup machine. However, 
> the packet and byte counts seem to have been reset. Is it possible to 
> synchronise the packet and byte counts too? Do you already have code 
> that can do this?

This is not be feasible since every packet would require one 
synchronization message containing the counter update. However, I can 
add it this in an approximate way (losing some precision). However, I'm 
not sure how useful this would be.

-- 
"Los honestos son inadaptados sociales" -- Les Luthiers

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