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Re: iptables: reading counters



On Sun, Jan 09, 2005 at 12:37:19PM +0100, Robert Tasarz wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 08, 2005 at 08:00:44PM -0800, Mike Mestnik wrote:
> > 
> > --- Marcin Owsiany <porridge@debian.org> wrote:
> > 
> > > On Fri, Jan 07, 2005 at 10:00:36PM -0800, Mike Mestnik wrote:
> > > > See '-n' in most any man page(including iptables).  Then use DNS or
> > > > hosts/networks/services for your host/net/port name resolving.
> > > 
> > > Again, this is not a problem of symbolic vs numerical address matching.
> > > See my other post..
> > > 
> 
> http://www.netfilter.org/patch-o-matic/pom-extra.html
> 
> <quote>
> Add comment match for attaching comments to rules
> Author: Brad Fisher <brad@info-link.net>
> Status: Stable
> 
> This option adds CONFIG_IP_NF_MATCH_COMMENT, which supplies a comment
> match module.  This match allows you to add comments (up to 256 characters)
> to any rule.
> 
> Supported options:
> --comment COMMENT
> 
> Example:
>   -A INPUT -s 192.168.0.0/16 -m comment --comment "A privatized IP block"
> </quote>
> 
> Stable status looks promising and I suspect that this is what you are
> looking for. Anyway I'm not using it and don't know which kernel version
> it supports. So give us some feedback if you decide to test it :).

FYI: I have finally installed this recently, and this indeed is what I
was looking for. More feedback (and maybe some code) to come :)

Marcin
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