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From: Eli Hadad <elhadad@cisco.com>
To: Matt Zagrabelny <mzagrabe@d.umn.edu>
Cc: netfilter@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: iptables and performance
Date: Tue, 13 May 2008 20:03:34 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1210709014.5829.275.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1210692588.545.119.camel@grateful.d.umn.edu>


Hi Matt,

I guess this is what I was looking for.

Thanks again,
Eli

On Tue, 2008-05-13 at 10:29 -0500, Matt Zagrabelny wrote:
> On Tue, 2008-05-13 at 09:59 +0300, Eli Hadad wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > I am new to iptables and have few question I hope you can help with:
> > 1. Is there a limit to the number of rules I can add to specific chain?
> > I need to have around 20000 rules.
> > 2. What is the performance implications of using this large number of
> > rules? Is there any numbers people can share.
> > 3. I also saw the HIPAC project which claim to have much better
> > performance. Is there any work done to integrate same type of
> > functionality into iptables?
> 
> Google: hipac ipset
> 
> Look at the first pdf link. It talks about performance and netfilter. It
> also addresses HIPAC and ipset.
> 
> I would say that you want to look at ipset.
> 
> Cheers,
> 


  reply	other threads:[~2008-05-13 20:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
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2008-05-13  6:59 ` iptables and performance Eli Hadad
2008-05-13 15:29   ` Matt Zagrabelny
2008-05-13 20:03     ` Eli Hadad [this message]
2008-05-13 16:24   ` Grant Taylor

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