what are the numbers in bracket against chain name in iptable? [duplicate]
Solution 1:
A chain specification looks like :
chain-name
chain-policy
[packet-counter
:byte-counter
]. Thechain-name
may be for example PREROUTING, the policy is described previously and can for example be ACCEPT. Finally thepacket-counter
andbyte-counters
are the same counters as in the output fromiptables -L -v
.
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