As for any firewall, iptables is able to do network statistics reporting. the -v (–verbose) option along with the list switch (-L) show packets and bytes counters. Network stats are available on a per rule basis. Here is an example on the INPUT chain: [stats@linux_server]$ sudo iptables -nvL INPUT Chain INPUT (policy DROP 74941 packets, 7900K bytes) pkts bytes target prot opt in out source destina