From: "Yogini Parkhi" <yparkhi@bivio.net> > Hi Nicolas, > Those are packet and byte counters. But I think they are ignored while doing a restore. > These lines are setting default policies for the default chains. > [0:0] means packet and byte counters are zeros. nope, those actually do get restored ;).. and thats why they are saved for.. if you want to do packet/byte counting via netfilter you would be busted once you reboot the machine, since they'd be lost, if you save/restore the ruleset they will still be instact.. this doesnt mean that netfilter is the sollution for such couting problems (there are actually other tools that are meant for that purpose). but its a nice goodie
