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From: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
Subject: Re: iptables-retore very slow
Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2007 19:45:16 +0200
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Rackage | Randles wrote:
> I recently noticed that one of my firewalls was taking a very long time 
> to reboot. Which was odd as its a very new  machine.
> 
> On investigation is seemed to be the iptables-restore command that was 
> adding 10+ minutes to the boot-up times.

Are you using iptables >= 1.3.x?

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