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From: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 kernel 19/29] add byte threshold capability to nfacct
Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2013 22:00:53 +0200
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Michael Zintakis <michael.zintakis@googlemail.com> wrote:
> * add a 'bthr' variable to each nfacct object, allowing a bytes 'threshold'
> to be stored and then reported if/when traffic breaches it.

Again, why is this needed?
Why is it useful?