> Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2014 10:19:32 +0000 > From: Richard Melville <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [blfs-support] iptables again > > > > > Richard Melville wrote: > > > Maybe somebody has the answer to this -- it's only a minor point. > > > > > > I've set up msmtp and s-nail on a blfs server; I can send email, and > > > iptables is not blocking them but neither is it recording the packets > > > passed. When I had this issue before with a different service, changing > > > sport to dport resolved it, but not this time. I've set the ports to 25 > > > and I've also tried 587. Both work, but still no packets recorded. > > > > What commands are you trying to run? > > > > -- Bruce > > > > > I'm sending mail to a colleague via my gmail address with:- > > cat test.mail | msmtp -a gmail [email protected] > > where "gmail" is the name of my account in the .msmtprc file. > > As I say, the mail delivery works fine with my colleague receiving the > mail, and I get a copy in my gmail sent items. However, iptables -nvL > shows "0" in both the pkts and the bytes columns, as if nothing has been > sent. A minor point I know, but all my other traffic (ntp, http, dns, ssh) > is recorded by iptables in those two columns. >
Are you wanting to show incoming or outgoing traffic, or both, or what? Does your firewall log the traffic for the relevant port numbers and for the relevant table (~== traffic-flow direction)? Depending on what table you're wanting to see stats for, you might need to use the '-t' flag for iptables to show the stats for the relevant table. You might also find the '--line-numbers' flag useful - e.g. for debugging. (And fwiw, I'd normally use the '-x' flag too). If the above don't resolve it, then probably good idea to post your firewall file, plus the literal stats command line (if different from the 'iptables -nvL' posted above). rgds, akh -- -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
