The ACCOUNT target is a high performance accounting system for local networks.
It takes two parameters: --addr network/netmask and --tname NAME.
---addr is the subnet we want accounting for
+--addr is the subnet which is accounted for
--tname is the table name where the information is stored
-The data can later be queried using the libipt_ACCOUNT userspace library
+The data can be queried later using the libipt_ACCOUNT userspace library
or by the "iptaccount" tool which is part of the libipt_ACCOUNT package.
-For more information go to http://www.intra2net.com/opensource/ipt_ACCOUNT
+A special subnet is "0.0.0.0/0": All data is stored in the src_bytes
+and src_packets structure of slot "0". This is useful if you want
+to account the overall traffic to/from your internet provider.
+
+For more information go to http://www.intra2net.com/de/produkte/opensource/ipt_account/