problem in /etc/sysconfig/iptables

[Aditya Kulkarni]

Hi all,

i havent understood what this means when i ran iptables-save command.

the file /etc/sysconfig/iptables had

# # Generated by iptables-save v1.2.3 on Mon Jan  7 17:46:27 2002
*filter
:INPUT ACCEPT [55114:23546097]
:FORWARD ACCEPT [0:0]
:OUTPUT ACCEPT [54586:42863676]
COMMIT
# Completed on Mon Jan  7 17:46:27 2002


what does the number in the square bracket indicate? these are randomly generated 
i had core dumps if i didnt have those numbers ...
so i just replaced them by [0:0] in all my tables ,ie in *filter , *nat and even in *mangle


Ne help would be appreciated

best regards
Aditya








Generated by iptables-save v1.2.3 on Mon Jan  7 17:46:27 2002
*filter
:INPUT ACCEPT [55114:23546097]
:FORWARD ACCEPT [0:0]
:OUTPUT ACCEPT [54586:42863676]
COMMIT
# Completed on Mon Jan  7 17:46:27 2002