On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 11:29:42AM -0800, Pete Holland wrote: > This is a great idea, thank you! This is a problem I'm trying to > solve right now and have found that using the rule counters is clunky > and restrictive. Specifically, this provides the kind of > functionality that's needed to support changing the rule definitions > without losing the accounting information. > > Quick question, would this be limited to the filter table, or would we > be able to use the target (or match as I saw suggested) in other > tables? > This would be most useful if it were available in the mangle (so we > could mark+account in one spot... and if it were a match, in one rule) > and nat tables (so we can account for traffic pre and post NAT > treatment). No restriction regarding what table you want to use this. P.S: please, don't top-post, that's the nf-ml policy. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netfilter-devel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html