Re: dummy target?

[Moritz Gartenmeister <moritz.gartenmeister@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi all

Thanks for your (Sven and Steven) help!

regards
moritz

Sven Schuster wrote:
> Hi Moritz,
>
> On Fri, Mar 18, 2005 at 02:46:20PM +0100, Moritz Gartenmeister told us:
>
> > hi all
> >
> > i want to use the counters for statistic stuff. i already have a working 
> > example. but i want to get numbers for pakets, which i acutally have no 
> > rule for (e.g. all incoming traffic).
> > is there a dummy target? like:
> > $IPTABLES -t mangle -A PREROUTING -m physdev --physdev-in $INET_IF -j DUMMY
> >
> > dummy target: do nothing, do not terminate, do just increment counters.
>
>
> just don't provide the '-j TARGET' on the commandline, then you'll
> have a rule (with its counters) which "does" nothing...
>
>
> HTH
>
> Sven
>
>
> > cheers
> > moritz