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author | Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@medozas.de> | 2009-03-17 16:37:47 +0100 |
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committer | Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@medozas.de> | 2009-03-17 16:37:49 +0100 |
commit | 71bc61f926ca2d8ec57d9fbd698c2af32c9a9f64 (patch) | |
tree | f16e7b54381faadd2d49b595988a006f53792151 /extensions | |
parent | a73a34ad9c9bb30dafbd7b5ca15b902e83c50ee2 (diff) |
libxt_connbytes: document nf_ct_acct behavior
Signed-off-by: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@medozas.de>
Diffstat (limited to 'extensions')
-rw-r--r-- | extensions/libxt_connbytes.man | 6 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/extensions/libxt_connbytes.man b/extensions/libxt_connbytes.man index b5608a35..e475cae7 100644 --- a/extensions/libxt_connbytes.man +++ b/extensions/libxt_connbytes.man @@ -9,6 +9,12 @@ scheduled using a lower priority band in traffic control. .PP The transferred bytes per connection can also be viewed through `conntrack -L` and accessed via ctnetlink. +.PP +NOTE that for connections which have no accounting information, the match will +always return false. The "net.netfilter.nf_conntrack_acct" sysctl flag controls +whether \fBnew\fP connections will be byte/packet counted. Existing connection +flows will not be gaining/losing a/the accounting structure when be sysctl flag +is flipped. .TP [\fB!\fP] \fB\-\-connbytes\fP \fIfrom\fP[\fB:\fP\fIto\fP] match packets from a connection whose packets/bytes/average packet |