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From: Feizhou <feizhou@linuxmail.org>
Subject: Re: Large number of repeated rules with only differing -s ipaddrs/cidrs
Date: Mon, 19 Apr 2004 22:47:28 +0800
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To: Jozsef Kadlecsik <kadlec@blackhole.kfki.hu>
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>>I have a whole bunch of ips/cidrs that I want to apply the rule to.
>>
>>Is there any way to insert one rule where the -s would be able to look
>>up a table (btree/hash/cdb whatever) that contains those ips/cidrs
>>instead of insert gazillion rules?
> 
> 
> Yes, you can use either the ippool or the ipset extensions. ippool is
> capable to store up to the number of IP addresses of a full B class network.
> ippool can store network addresses as well and supports random
> adressess/networks too.
> 

lovely.

when will ipset be available in 2.6?

I presume ippool is going to become obsolete?