On Wednesday 13 November 2002 10:16 am, Raymond Leach wrote: > On Wed, 2002-11-13 at 16:34, Doug Watson wrote: > > what does the (policy ACCEPT 4 packets, 284 bytes) mean? > > Chain OUTPUT (policy ACCEPT 4 packets, 284 bytes) > > It means that the default policy for the OUTPUT chain is to accept > packets and that there have been 4 packets totalling 284 bytes tested > against this chain. Actually, this tells us that 4 packets totalling 284 bytes made it throug= h the=20 output chain rules and were ACCEPTED by policy rather than a rule. If an= =20 earlier rule in the chain led to an ACCEPT or a DROP or RETURN then it wi= ll=20 NOT be counted here, but only in the rule(s) it matched. > > Is that the total number of packets to traverse the OUTPUT > > chain or it he number of packets ACCEPTED by the policy for the > > OUTPUT chain? Or something else? > > As above ... j
