From: Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>
To: jmerkey@wolfmountaingroup.com
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] Kernel Blocking Firewall
Date: Fri, 9 Jan 2009 07:46:59 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090109064658.GG5038@1wt.eu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <40416.166.70.238.44.1231467823.squirrel@webmail.wolfmountaingroup.com>
On Thu, Jan 08, 2009 at 07:23:43PM -0700, jmerkey@wolfmountaingroup.com wrote:
> iptables is just too cumbersome and memory comsumptive to work well and
> has a shitty app inteface so I wrote one with a kernel level database and
> combined it with postfix. This firewall actually drops packets on the
> floor by port, or in their entirety by IP address to deal with these
> jerks.
>
> The code is a kernel module that will build an RBL database to disk and it
> will cache up to 500,000 IP addresses efficiently on a 1GB home personal
> computer. The more memory you have, the more IP addresses you can cache.
> It is configurable and possible to hold millions of them if you have 4GB
> of memory in the server.
why didn't you use ipset for that ? It's designed exactly for this usage
and is a lot easier to use than plain iptables for dynamic filtering.
Willy
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-01-09 6:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-01-09 2:23 [ANNOUNCE] Kernel Blocking Firewall jmerkey
2009-01-09 6:46 ` Willy Tarreau [this message]
2009-01-09 7:36 ` jmerkey
2009-01-09 8:45 ` Willy Tarreau
2009-01-09 8:15 ` jmerkey
2009-01-09 9:09 ` Willy Tarreau
2009-01-09 8:43 ` jmerkey
2009-01-09 10:56 ` David Newall
2009-01-09 18:14 ` jmerkey
2009-01-10 0:40 ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2009-01-10 6:11 ` Willy Tarreau
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