On Sat, Aug 27, 2005 at 09:36:46AM +0200, Glenn Matthys wrote: > Hello, > > I am using IPtables for traffic accounting right now, and my question is, how many bits are > reserved for the counters? If they are 32 bits, they'll probably overflow and return to 0 > after 4294967296 bytes, 4096 megabytes that is. Is there any way of overcoming this? it's 64bit packet and byte counters, so I seriously doubt you would overflow them anytime soon ;) -- - Harald Welte <laforge@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> http://netfilter.org/ ============================================================================ "Fragmentation is like classful addressing -- an interesting early architectural error that shows how much experimentation was going on while IP was being designed." -- Paul Vixie
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