From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Pablo Neira Ayuso Subject: Re: conntrackd and counters Date: Mon, 30 Mar 2009 20:19:47 +0200 Message-ID: <49D10D43.9090506@netfilter.org> References: <49D0D597.50007@dbamsystems.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <49D0D597.50007@dbamsystems.com> Sender: netfilter-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" To: Sam Gardner Cc: netfilter@vger.kernel.org Hi Sam, I'm cc'ing netfilter user to keep this message for the record. 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