Harald Welte wrote:
>
> On Fri, May 17, 2002 at 08:39:39AM +1000, John Holman wrote:
> > My question:
> >
> > Is there ANY reason to suppose that the ACCOUNTING total is not an
> > accurate count of all IP traffic into and out of eth0?
>
> yes, since you only count locally-generated and locally-targeted traffic,
> not the traffic forwarded by your machine.
>
> use your accounting rules in the mangle table (PREROUTING and POSTROUTING)
> to cover all traffic.
>
Thank you for that, Harald, it was a RTFM problem :(
[I eventually managed to work out the reason for the discrepancies
byself, by checking against a detailed traffic report supplied by my
ISP.]
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Best regards,
John Holman
Eastax WWW
Melbourne, Australia
