Re: [PATCH 1/2] netfilter: add extended accounting infrastructure over nfnetlink

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On Wednesday 2011-12-14 12:00, pablo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

>Then, you can use one of this accounting objects in several iptables
>rules using the new NFACCT target (which comes in a follow-up patch):
>
> # iptables -I INPUT -p tcp --sport 80 -j NFACCT --nfacct-name http-traffic
> # iptables -I OUTPUT -p tcp --dport 80 -j NFACCT --nfacct-name http-traffic
>
>The idea is simple: if one packet matches the rule, the NFACCT target
>updates the counters.

This smells a lot like -m quota2 --grow, except that yours uses 
netlink instead of procfs and can only update the counters.

I suggest to turn -j NFACCT into -m nfacct instead, so that we can add 
counting-down mode and matching capabilities, so as to replace 
xt_quota*.

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