Re: ipchains: /proc/net/ip_fw* permission change

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Sun, 17 Jan 1999 20:35:11 +0000 (GMT)


> such a discussion would have happened, or is there an obvious reason why
> people shouldn't be allowed to see how many packets have been processed
> by ipchains?

For accounting only minor ones, for firewalling serious ones.

> /proc/net/dev to get it's information. Unfortunately, the ip_fwchains
> is no longer user readable, and /proc/net/dev always shows 0 for eth0's
> receive and send byte counts (at least with the eepro100 driver).

The driver just got fixed 8)

Alan

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