Date: Fri, 12 Apr 2002 22:57:53 -0700 (PDT) From: Patrick Thomas <root@utility.clubscholarship.com> To: Chip Norkus <wd@arpa.com> Cc: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: am I reading ipfw show correctly ? Message-ID: <20020412225639.Y77505-100000@utility.clubscholarship.com> In-Reply-To: <20020413044549.GQ775@arpa.com>
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Ok, so roughly 79 Gigs in both direction have been passed by this rule since last time I booted ? And this number (and the number of characters the line has in it) just keeps getting longer and longer as the machine is up for a longer and longer time ? thanks, PT On Fri, 12 Apr 2002, Chip Norkus wrote: > On Fri Apr 12, 2002; 09:20PM -0700 Patrick Thomas propagated the following: > > > > when I run `ipfw show`, among other things, I see: > > > > 00100 269386387 79460331626 allow ip from any to any > > > > > > I think this means that 269 megabytes have been received inbound, and 79 > > gigabytes have been sent outbound. > > > > > > 1. Am I correct ? > > > > No. The first column is the rule number, the second number is the number > of packets passed through that rule, and the third is the number of bytes > passed through that rule. If you want to count only inbound or outbound > traffic in a rule, you'll want to use the 'in' or 'out' ruleset suffixes. > > > 2. how often, if ever, do these counters reset ? > > > > At reboot, or when you issue an 'ipfw zero' > > > --PT > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > -wd > -- > chip norkus; c programmer of the apocalypse wd@arpa.com > "question = (to) ? be : !be;" --Shakespeare http://telekinesis.org > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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