> Umm, no. Counters can be resetable - you just specify that accounting
> programs should not reset them, ever.
>
> The ability to reset counters is extremely useful if you're a human
> looking at the output of iptables -L -v. (I thus far know of no one
> who can memorise the counter values for around 40 rules).
You'll get bogus accounting results unless you stop/restart the
accounting programs every time you manually deal with the counters.
This sounds dangerously easy to make mistakes to me.
Olaf
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