Re: iptables & ifconfig wrong packet accounting

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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

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