Florian Westphal wrote: > Michael Zintakis <michael.zintakis@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> * add a 'bthr' variable to each nfacct object, allowing a bytes 'threshold' >> to be stored and then reported if/when traffic breaches it. > > Again, why is this needed? > Why is it useful? This is used for measuring traffic "expectancy", i.e. allows one to be able to register what amount of traffic is "expected" to pass through this accounting object. If that traffic threshold is exceeded, this is properly indicated when the accounting object is listed or any statistics for that object are being collected by the nfacct daemon. That traffic "expectancy" can be set/reset depending on the nature of the traffic or its source/destination etc, so it is pretty flexible. Again, there is extensive information on this in the (revised) man page if you decide to look at it. -- 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
