Re: Numbers in /etc/sysconfig/iptables

[Alejandro González Hernández - Imoq <imoq imoqland com>]

On Tue, 2003-05-06 at 01:51, Michael Schwendt wrote:
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> On 05 May 2003 18:53:06 -0500, Alejandro González Hernández - Imoq wrote:
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> > I have a doubt and I hope you can help me to make it clear. I wonder
> > what the numbers between the brackets in /etc/sysconfig/iptables stand
> > for, in example:
> >
> > # Generated by iptables-save v1.2.6a on Tue Feb 25 10:04:19 2003
> > *nat
> > :PREROUTING ACCEPT [6892235:738030875]
> > :POSTROUTING ACCEPT [138782:15823395]
> > :OUTPUT ACCEPT [798478:57582278]
> > [3192:155808] -A PREROUTING -s 192.168.0.0/255.255.0.0 -d !
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> Packet and byte counters, saved by "iptables-save -c", see bug
> #87715. I would also prefer if they were not saved and restored,
> especially not after reboot.

Do you think that it is better, then, to change all those numbers by
[0:0]? Specially in the rules... is there anything this could affect my
firewall?

Thanks for answering.

Alex.

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