Whether
5849 is correct or not depends on the counters maintained by the kernel/iptables and should be confirmed by the command
Code:
iptables --line -nvL INPUT | grep -E "set.*Blacklist|^num"
NOTE: If the number of
pkts reported by iptables has a suffix such as
'K'
e.g.
57K
then I multiply the number by
1024.
So, the first number
5849 is the number of
blocking hits on the
INPUT chain, and the second number
0 (using the '+' character as a delimiter) is the number of
blocking hits on the
FORWARD chain, giving a combined total of
5,849.