NAME

       nfacct - command line tool to create/retrieve/delete accounting objects

SYNOPSIS

       nfacct command [name] [options]

DESCRIPTION

       nfacct  is  the  command  line  tool  that  allows  to manipulate the Netfilter's extended
       accounting infrastructure.

COMMANDS

       These commands specify the action that nfacct performs. Only one of them can be  specified
       at any given time.

       list   List the existing accounting object in table.

       restore
              Restore accounting object table by reading from stdin. Input format is the one used
              as output by the list command.

       add    Add new accounting object.

       delete Delete accounting object.

       get    Get existing accounting object.

       flush  Flush the entire table.

       version
              Displays the version information.

       help   Displays the help message.

OPTIONS

       This tool also allows a couple of options with the get and list commands that are:

       reset  That atomically obtains and resets the counters.

       xml    That displays the output in XML format.

SEE ALSO

       iptables(8)

BUGS

       Please, report them to  netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org  or  file  a  bug  in  Netfilter's
       bugzilla (https://bugzilla.netfilter.org).

AUTHORS

       Pablo Neira Ayuso wrote and maintains the nfacct tool.

       Man page written by Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>.

                                           Dec 30, 2011                                 NFACCT(8)