From: Srinivasa T N <seenutn@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: Mail List - Netfilter <netfilter@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Place for ipt_ACCOUNT/ipt_NETFLOW
Date: Mon, 07 Feb 2011 12:24:45 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4D4F9735.6080006@linux.vnet.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4D4CC630.3050209@riverviewtech.net>
On Saturday 05 February 2011 09:08 AM, Grant Taylor wrote:
> 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.
>
This will double the number of rules a packet has to traverse (One rule
for accounting and one rule for accept). Is there are other alternative?
Regards,
Seenu.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-02-07 6:54 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
2011-02-07 6:54 ` Srinivasa T N [this message]
2011-02-07 16:20 ` Grant Taylor
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