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From: John Lister <john.lister@kickstone.com>
To: bmcdowell@coxhealthplans.com
Cc: netfilter@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [2:656]?
Date: Mon, 06 Jun 2011 20:57:53 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4DED3141.9030805@kickstone.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <92A9C99A1E5FF14F8538DDEE14996A5203341F@chp-exg.coxhp.com>

On 06/06/2011 20:35, bmcdowell@coxhealthplans.com wrote:
> Hello list.  I'm in the process of 'modernizing' my iptables scripts to utilize iptables-save/iptables-restore.  I've imported my script onto a test box, have exported via -save, and now I have a question or two about what I'm seeing. 
>
> For starters, is there a reference for the changes in format?  Google is most unhelpful when trying to search for "[2:656]", for example.
>
> Specifically, I'd like to know what the "2:656" means in the following line:
>
> -----
> *filter
> :INPUT DROP [2:656]
> -----
These are the packet/byte counts for that chain from memory - You can 
simply replace them 0:0 if you are generating scripts and don't care 
about the counts.

John

  reply	other threads:[~2011-06-06 19:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-06-06 19:35 [2:656]? bmcdowell
2011-06-06 19:57 ` John Lister [this message]
2011-06-06 19:59   ` [2:656]? bmcdowell
2011-06-07  9:02     ` [2:656]? Jan Engelhardt
2011-06-07 12:41       ` [2:656]? bmcdowell
2011-06-07  6:44 ` ipv6 link local address Nikolay S.
2011-06-07  7:06   ` Erik Schorr
2011-06-07  7:12     ` Nikolay S.
2011-06-07  9:04     ` Jan Engelhardt
2011-06-07  9:24       ` Erik Schorr
2011-06-07  9:24         ` Jan Engelhardt
2011-06-07  9:35           ` AW: " Fiedler Roman
2011-06-07 12:44   ` bmcdowell
2011-06-07 14:23     ` Nikolay S.
2011-06-07 14:26       ` bmcdowell
2011-06-07 14:32         ` Nikolay S.
2011-06-07 16:50       ` Jan Engelhardt

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