From: Grant Taylor <gtaylor@riverviewtech.net>
To: Mail List - Netfilter <netfilter@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Place for ipt_ACCOUNT/ipt_NETFLOW
Date: Fri, 04 Feb 2011 21:38:24 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4D4CC630.3050209@riverviewtech.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4D4B8D27.3070306@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
On 02/03/11 23:22, Srinivasa T N wrote:
> But adding rules to discard the unwanted traffic and then do an
> accounting for the rest of the packets in not a good idea. I may not
> even know what type of packets may arrive and writing rules to discard
> each of unwanted packets is difficult. So, I prefer to write rules to
> accept only the packets that are required and then drop the other
> packets. I wanted to do the accounting only for packets that I accept.
Do the accounting on the rules that you write to decide what traffic to
accept.
Grant. . . .
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-02-05 3:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-02-03 8:50 Place for ipt_ACCOUNT/ipt_NETFLOW Srinivasa T N
2011-02-03 16:55 ` Bob Miller
2011-02-04 5:25 ` Srinivasa T N
2011-02-03 20:18 ` Grant Taylor
2011-02-04 5:22 ` Srinivasa T N
2011-02-05 3:38 ` Grant Taylor [this message]
2011-02-07 6:54 ` Srinivasa T N
2011-02-07 16:20 ` Grant Taylor
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