On Wed, 2011-09-14 at 12:51 -0800, Travis Veazey wrote:

> 
> Ha! Well, doesn't that just make things so very easy?
> 
> And just to clarify, this does not apply -- at least not in the same
> way -- to accounting rules that look at packets which e.g. enter on
> eth0 and leave on eth1, right? For example, the rule:
> 
> traffic:COUNT       -       eth1            eth0
> 
> would only count packets that actually get routed through (i.e. get
> accepted and routed), and would not count packets that hit eth1 but
> are then dropped or rejected, right?

It counts *all* packets that enter via eth1 and get routed out of eth0,
regardless of their subsequent disposition. One more time - Accounting
occurs *before any filtering*.

-Tom
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