ipacsum question

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[oakleeman]

Can anybody help me get a better understanding of the ipacsum output? I'm confused by the forwarded part and how it adds in with incoming/outgoing.

root@efw:~ # ipacsum -t "this month" --fixed-quantity M
IP accounting summary
Host: efw.domain.local / Time created: 2010/10/11 00:32:09 CDT
Data from 2010/10/01 00:00:00 CDT to 2010/10/11 00:32:09 CDT
  forwarded incoming GREEN (br0)                  :           6375M
  forwarded incoming RED_main (eth              :            788M
  forwarded outgoing GREEN (br0)                   :           1211M
  forwarded outgoing RED_main (eth               :           5952M
  incoming GREEN (br0)                                      :             32M
  incoming RED_main (eth1)                              :            284M
  outgoing GREEN (br0)                                       :             79M
  outgoing RED_main (eth1)                               :            331M