X-Git-Url: http://developer.intra2net.com/git/?p=ipt_ACCOUNT;a=blobdiff_plain;f=help;h=aafa32f73558e36fd49ae74bd919b57430d3b93d;hp=0478a54b5df1047d72e60c7818a24de011d8b9a0;hb=8bea9bf9644c8c38cc956c667b4026ab8b9b80d0;hpb=b03f465711e0c5c6eb309dde2067153c301e1220 diff --git a/help b/help index 0478a54..aafa32f 100644 --- a/help +++ b/help @@ -4,10 +4,14 @@ This patch adds the ACCOUNT target 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/opensource/ipt_account