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Signed-off-by: Tom Eastep <teastep@shorewall.net>
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<pubdate><?dbtimestamp format="Y/m/d"?></pubdate>
<copyright>
<year>2003-2009</year>
<year>2003-2016</year>
<holder>Thomas M. Eastep</holder>
</copyright>
@ -439,34 +439,7 @@ ACCOUNT(loc-net,$INT_NET) - INT_IF COM_IF
<title>Per-IP Accounting</title>
<para>Shorewall 4.4.17 added support for per-IP accounting using the
ACCOUNT target. That target is only available when xtables-addons is
installed. This support has been successfully tested with xtables-addons
1.32 on:</para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>Fedora 14</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Debian Squeeze</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>OpenSuSE 11.3</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
<para>and xtables-addons Version 1.21 on:</para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>Debian Lenny</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
<para>Information about xtables-addons installation may be found at <ulink
url="Dynamic.html#xtables-addons">here</ulink>.</para>
ACCOUNT target.</para>
<para>Per-IP accounting is configured in <ulink
url="manpages/shorewall-accounting.html">shorewall-accounting</ulink> (5)
@ -567,35 +540,8 @@ gateway:~#
purging and/or reloading the Netfilter ruleset. Shorewall support for this
form of accounting was added in Shorewall 4.5.7.</para>
<para>As of this writing (late July 2012), Fedora 17 has partial support
for this feature but not all. It is necessary to download and build the
following:</para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>libnetfilter_acct</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>nfacct</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
<para>The following Fedora packages are also required:</para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>libnetlink and libnetlink-dev</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>libmnl and libmnl-dev</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
<para>The tarballs are available from the Netfilter download sites.</para>
<para>The nfacct utility can create, delete and display <firstterm>nfacct
<para>Use of this feature requires that the nfacct utility be installed.
The nfacct utility can create, delete and display <firstterm>nfacct
objects</firstterm>. These named objects consist of a packet and byte
counter. Packets matching those netfilter rules that use the nfacct match
cause the packet and byte count in the object named in the match to be
@ -622,8 +568,8 @@ gateway:~#
<term>save</term>
<listitem>
<para> Causes the packet and byte counters to be saved along with
the chains and rules.</para>
<para>Causes the packet and byte counters to be saved along with the
chains and rules.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
@ -632,7 +578,7 @@ gateway:~#
<listitem>
<para>Causes the packet and byte counters (if saved) to be restored
along with the chains and rules. </para>
along with the chains and rules.</para>
<caution>
<para>If your iptables ruleset depends on variables that are
@ -652,7 +598,7 @@ gateway:~#
effect if the <option>-f </option>option is also specified. If a
previously-saved configuration is restored, then the packet and byte
counters (if saved) will be restored along with the chains and
rules. </para>
rules.</para>
<caution>
<para>If your iptables ruleset depends on variables that are
@ -684,8 +630,8 @@ gateway:~#
</varlistentry>
</variablelist>
<para> If you wish to (approximately) preserve the counters over a
possibly unexpected reboot, then: </para>
<para>If you wish to (approximately) preserve the counters over a possibly
unexpected reboot, then:</para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>