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From: Chip Norkus <wd@arpa.com>
To: Patrick Thomas <root@utility.clubscholarship.com>
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Subject: Re: am I reading ipfw show correctly ?
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On Fri Apr 12, 2002; 09:20PM -0700 Patrick Thomas propagated the following:
> 
> when I run `ipfw show`, among other things, I see:
> 
> 00100 269386387 79460331626 allow ip from any to any
> 
> 
> I think this means that 269 megabytes have been received inbound, and 79
> gigabytes have been sent outbound.
> 
> 
> 1. Am I correct ?
> 

No.  The first column is the rule number, the second number is the number
of packets passed through that rule, and the third is the number of bytes
passed through that rule.  If you want to count only inbound or outbound
traffic in a rule, you'll want to use the 'in' or 'out' ruleset suffixes.

> 2. how often, if ever, do these counters reset ?
> 

At reboot, or when you issue an 'ipfw zero'

> --PT
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