Re: pf's "set loginterface" peculiarities

[Paul de Weerd <weerd_(_at_)_weirdnet_(_dot_)_nl>]

On Mon, Feb 14, 2005 at 08:44:38PM +0100, Henning Brauer wrote:
| * Paul de Weerd <weerd_(_at_)_weirdnet_(_dot_)_nl> [2005-02-14 20:10]:
| > I wanted to enable collection of these counters on multiple interfaces
| > but the BNF in pf.conf(5) says I can not. What I can do, however, is
| > set the loginterface to one if (say lo0), then watch the statistics
| > with pfctl -si, then set the loginterface to another if (say wi0) and
| > watch the statistics for that interface the same way. This way I can
| > get (with an ugly hack) statistics for multiple interfaces.
|
| or just use
|   pfctl -i dc0 -vvsI
|   pfctl -i dc1 -vvsI
| etc etc for each interface you want.
| or get 'em all... (long)
|   pfctl -vvsI

OK Cool, thanks Henning.

But then I wonder what the 'set loginterface' option is for. If
statistics are kept for all interfaces anyway, then why the option ?

Cheers,

Paul 'WEiRD' de Weerd

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