Hello! I have got a iptables firewall running and i want to monitor my traffic, therefore i played arund with the following command: /sbin/iptables -vnxL OUTPUT | grep "Chain OUTPUT" It worked fine, although, after a while it kept getting the result: Chain OUTPUT (policy ACCEPT 0 packets, 0 bytes) I reloaded the filter rules, still the same. Chain OUTPUT (policy ACCEPT 0 packets, 0 bytes) pkts bytes target prot opt in out source destination 9 2051 ACCEPT all -- * lo 0.0.0.0/0 0.0.0.0/0 0 0 ACCEPT icmp -- * * 0.0.0.0/0 0.0.0.0/0 icmp type 11 2 132 ACCEPT icmp -- * * 0.0.0.0/0 0.0.0.0/0 icmp type 3 code 3 0 0 DROP icmp -- * * 0.0.0.0/0 0.0.0.0/0 icmp type 3 9535 2685876 ACCEPT all -- * * 0.0.0.0/0 0.0.0.0/0 state NEW,RELATED,ESTABLISHED 0 0 LOG all -- * * 0.0.0.0/0 0.0.0.0/0 LOG flags 6 level 4 prefix `SuSE-FW-OUTPUT-ERROR ' dory:/home/sts/# /sbin/iptables -vnxL OUTPUT Chain OUTPUT (policy ACCEPT 0 packets, 0 bytes) pkts bytes target prot opt in out source destination 9 2051 ACCEPT all -- * lo 0.0.0.0/0 0.0.0.0/0 10140 2866335 ACCEPT all -- * * 0.0.0.0/0 0.0.0.0/0 state NEW,RELATED,ESTABLISHED 0 0 LOG all -- * * 0.0.0.0/0 0.0.0.0/0 LOG flags 6 level 4 prefix `SuSE-FW-OUTPUT-ERROR ' dory:/home/sts/# /sbin/iptables -vnxL OUTPUT Chain OUTPUT (policy ACCEPT 0 packets, 0 bytes) pkts bytes target prot opt in out source destination 9 2051 ACCEPT all -- * lo 0.0.0.0/0 0.0.0.0/0 0 0 ACCEPT icmp -- * * 0.0.0.0/0 0.0.0.0/0 icmp type 11 12236 3394902 ACCEPT all -- * * 0.0.0.0/0 0.0.0.0/0 state NEW,RELATED,ESTABLISHED 0 0 LOG all -- * * 0.0.0.0/0 0.0.0.0/0 LOG flags 6 level 4 prefix `SuSE-FW-OUTPUT-ERROR ' How come it wont count up the Accepted packaged and Bytes? If you need any more infos, please tell me! Thanks, Mario! -- +++ NEU bei GMX und erstmalig in Deutschland: TÜV-geprüfter Virenschutz +++ 100% Virenerkennung nach Wildlist. Infos: http://www.gmx.net/virenschutz