On Tue, 2003-05-06 at 01:51, Michael Schwendt wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 05 May 2003 18:53:06 -0500, Alejandro González Hernández - Imoq wrote: > > > I have a doubt and I hope you can help me to make it clear. I wonder > > what the numbers between the brackets in /etc/sysconfig/iptables stand > > for, in example: > > > > # Generated by iptables-save v1.2.6a on Tue Feb 25 10:04:19 2003 > > *nat > > :PREROUTING ACCEPT [6892235:738030875] > > :POSTROUTING ACCEPT [138782:15823395] > > :OUTPUT ACCEPT [798478:57582278] > > [3192:155808] -A PREROUTING -s 192.168.0.0/255.255.0.0 -d ! > > Packet and byte counters, saved by "iptables-save -c", see bug > #87715. I would also prefer if they were not saved and restored, > especially not after reboot. Do you think that it is better, then, to change all those numbers by [0:0]? Specially in the rules... is there anything this could affect my firewall? Thanks for answering. Alex. -- ¡Sé libre, usa software libre! Be free, use free software! http://www.imoqland.com/
