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List:       netfilter
Subject:    Re: [netfilter-core] How many bits are reserved for the counters?
From:       Harald Welte <laforge () netfilter ! org>
Date:       2005-08-27 11:09:16
Message-ID: 20050827110916.GC4407 () rama ! de ! gnumonks ! org
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On Sat, Aug 27, 2005 at 09:36:46AM +0200, Glenn Matthys wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I am using IPtables for traffic accounting right now, and my question is, how many bits are 
> reserved for the counters? If they are 32 bits, they'll probably overflow and return to 0 
> after 4294967296 bytes, 4096 megabytes that is. Is there any way of overcoming this?

it's 64bit packet and byte counters, so I seriously doubt you would
overflow them anytime soon ;)

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- Harald Welte <laforge@netfilter.org>                 http://netfilter.org/
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