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From: Carl-Daniel Hailfinger <c-d.hailfinger.devel.2006@gmx.net>
To: hbchen <hbchen@lanl.gov>
Cc: netfilter-devel@lists.netfilter.org
Subject: Re: Some questions about using heavy iptables rules in a Linux box ....
Date: Wed, 10 May 2006 01:59:11 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <44612CCF.5030400@gmx.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4460B502.4080903@lanl.gov>

hbchen wrote:
> Hi,
> I have some questions about using heavy iptables rules in a Linux box.
> 1. Has anyone done a comparison of latency and throughput on traffic
> through an
>    Linux node with and without IPtables (using lots of filtering rules)?
> 2. How much CPU time is spending on iptables (heavy filtering rules)?
> 3. Any significant impact (latency and throughput) on 10G ethernet link?

May I suggest using nf-hipac? It's available at http://www.hipac.org/ .
Especially for thousands of rules, it should be faster than iptables.


Regards,
Carl-Daniel
-- 
http://www.hailfinger.org/

      parent reply	other threads:[~2006-05-09 23:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-05-09 15:28 Some questions about using heavy iptables rules in a Linux box hbchen
2006-05-09 23:14 ` John A. Sullivan III
2006-05-09 23:59 ` Carl-Daniel Hailfinger [this message]

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