Accounting with iptables vs. snmp

[Steven M Campbell]

Stefan-Michael. Guenther (in-put GbR) wrote:

>Hi,
>
>using iptables I have setup a traffic accounting on one of our client's 
>gateways:
>
>iptables -A INPUT -i $WAN -j LOG --log-level debug
>iptables -A OUTPUT -o $WAN -j LOG --log-level debug
>iptables -A FORWARD -j LOG --log-level debug
>
>  
>
SNMP will record arps and other traffic that hits the nic regardless of 
it being directed to that machine or not, iptables (above) will not.   
The numbers will likely always be different, I am surprised that 
iptables would ever report more data being processed than snmp would.