On Mon, 2004-12-13 at 01:21, jorge alonso wrote: > i'm trying to do traffic accounting with iptables but the received > packets from iptables (iptables -L -v) and packets from ifconfig dont > match. > ifconfig counts more packets is it normal ? my guess would be that 'ifconfig' counts packets such as arp and dhcp requests/replies that never make it up to the netfilter hooks. -j -- "Default! The two sweetest words in the English language!" --The Simpsons