On 3/26/18 7:35 PM, Jeff Barnhill wrote: > At the end of ip6_forward(), is there a good reason why > IPSTATS_MIB_OUTFORWDATAGRAMS and IPSTATS_MIB_OUTOCTETS are incremented > before the NF_HOOK? If the hook steals or drops the packet, this > counts still go up, which seems incorrect. > > v4/ip_forward() increments these counters in ip_forward_finish(). It > seems that v6 should do it in ip6_forward_finish() ?? Thoughts? > > Jeff >
I agree and think it is part of the alignment between IPv4 and IPv6.
