Date: Thu, 9 Nov 1995 11:03:16 +1100 (EST) From: Gavin CAMERON <rdsgc@cs.mu.OZ.AU> To: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Question about IP accounting in FreeBSD 2.0.5 Message-ID: <9511090003.7677@mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU>
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I have a question about IP accounting in the 2.0.5 FreeBSD kernel. I setup my accounting chain in the following way: ipfw adda single all from hostA to hostB via ppp0 ipfw adda single all from 0.0.0.0/0 to hostB via ppp0 What I want to be able to do is account for all traffic that IS NOT coming from hostA. Logically, the second rule should catch this. Here's my question. In FreeBSD once a packet matches one accounting rule is it matched against any other accounting rules? If it is, should it be? I say no. But there many be a very compelling reason why it is. It appears to me that the counters are updated for every accounting rule that the packet matches. So in the above example a packet coming from hostA will be caught by both rules, and we get double accounting for the packet. I can write scripts to get around the problem, but the implementation seems flawed. Can you put me in contact with the person who implemented this code. Gavin gavin@ormond.unimelb.edu.au
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