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From: Raymond Leach <raymondl@knowledgefactory.co.za>
Subject: Re: Iptables efficiency
Date: 11 Mar 2003 15:13:40 +0200
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On Mon, 2003-03-10 at 20:04, Rinse Kloek wrote:
> We use a RedHat 7.3 machine as bridge on a P3 1.8 Ghz with 2 64 bits
> Gigabit interfaces. On the machine we have a lot of iptables rules like :
>             all  --  213.134.x.0        0.0.0.0/0
>             all  --  0.0.0.0/0            213.134.x.0
> TOS    all  --  213.134.x.4        0.0.0.0/0          TOS set 0x08
>             all  --  0.0.0.0/0            213.134.x.4
>=20
> We have about 3200 iptables rules on our bridge. I've tested today to
> remove 1000 of these rules. The load dropped from about 40% to 25%. So I
> think the iptables rule take up the most of the CPU load. Do you think th=
is
> is a problem of ineffeciency of iptables or just a 'limitation' in the
> TCP/IP stack of linux ?
>=20
Probably the packet parser having a hard time trying to make sense of
that many rules ...

> regards Rinse
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