Re: -x/--exact not functioning

Bart De Schuymer <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.network.bridge.ebtables.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Monday 24 May 2004 01:26, Peter Rabbitson wrote:
> Either I am doing something way wrong, or there is a bug in the arptables.
> Neither -x or --exact yield any changes in the byte counters output. I want
> to feed the output to mrtg to measure the magnitude of ARP storms induced
> by my cable provider, thus exact counter values are preferred.
> I don't know much C, but from looking in the source I can see that you do
> not define an OPT_EXPANDED and in the cases of CMD_LIST and
> CMD_LIST|CMD_ZERO you have OPT_EXPANDED commented out. Is there a reason to
> this?

Yes, I don't remember exactly but I bet it was laziness. Noone has complained 
about this up to now.
I'll try to include it in the next arptables release.

cheers,
Bart



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