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daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alan Cox)
Sat Jan 27 02:51:05 1996
From: Alan Cox <alan@cymru.net>
To: news@meerkat.xs4all.nl (Miss News)
Date: Fri, 26 Jan 1996 11:56:59 +0000 (GMT)
Cc: submit-linux-dev-net@ratatosk.yggdrasil.com
In-Reply-To: <m0tfX8g-0010y0C@meerkat.xs4all.nl> from "Miss News" at Jan 25, 96 08:15:00 pm
> We are using a Linux host as a firewall. Now I would also like to
> turn on IP accounting for all IP traffic except a number of (free off
> charge) networks. I have studied the source and I get the impression
> that this is not possible. You can't set a default policy on IP
> accounting to make an exclusion list. I am I right or wrong.
You are right, but you don't need to. Your program that reads the logs
simply has to subtract the 'free network' sum from the total.
Alan
