Bug#810628: Saving and restoring packet counters
Control: tags -1 help
thanks
On Mon, Jan 11, 2016 at 07:53:37AM +1300, martin f krafft wrote:
> iptables keeps packet and byte counters for each rule, and these can
> be quite useful for various purposes. Unfortunately, when ferm
> applies its ruleset, all the counters get zeroed.
>
> iptables does allow counters to be restored for each rule.
> Mightn't it be possible then that ferm upon flushing the rules saves
> all the counters and then tries to restore them for each rule for
> which a counter was previously known? I could imagine this to be as
> simple as hashing the rule, storing the counters against this hash,
> and upon restore, setting counters for all rules for which a hash
> can be found.
With ferm's upstream development having slowed down, it is unlikely that
Upstream would implement this. And I don't want to flood the upstream
issue tracker with wishlist requests.
If this is still important for you, please consider filing an upstream
request yourself.
A patch implementing this would be appreciated. Therefore tagging this
bug "help".
Greetings
Marc
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