Hi I have introduced a variable in xt_counters data structure of type uint_64t to be used as a counter in ipt_entry data structure. I have installed iptable new version source code from its website. In this userspace, I am printing the variable with other packet and byte counters. Till now iptables are working fine and every thing is all right -- except with the problem that the variable which I introduced is showing garbage values mostly 0's ( when print several times with iptables -L command). I have initialized the variable on the location where its required but I am not getting a constant value which is in my case should be only 0 (during testing). Can any one puts a light on this. I didnt know what the Linux kernel might do if its encounter an uninitialized variable. Also since I am printing the counters with the help of iptables-save -c and iptables -L -n -v and in both cases I am getting this non-obvious results; there fore I had also tried with initiailizing the variable in ipt_do_table function under the do_while loop and make the variable initialized always to 0, but this also not useful as I am still viewing the same results. Regards Karim Asif Sattar
