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From: "Rob Sterenborg" <rob@sterenborg.info>
Subject: Re: Synfloods - SNAT slow down
Date: Fri, 23 Apr 2004 16:37:16 +0200
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> I have two thousand hosts and two thousand forward rules :(

With so many hosts/rules you should be able to match subnets instead of
each host separately, reducing the number of rules greatly which in turn
improves Netfilter performance. Or do you have a special reason to do
this ?


Gr,
Rob