Re: [PATCH 0/3] netfilter : 3 patches to boost ip_tables performance

Harald Welte
2005-10-06T17:30:56Z

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On Wed, Oct 05, 2005 at 06:53:31PM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote:
> On Tuesday 04 October 2005 19:01, Patrick McHardy wrote:
> > Andi Kleen wrote:
> > > In a sense it's even getting worse: For example us losing the CONFIG
> > > option to disable local conntrack (Patrick has disabled it some time ago
> > > without even a comment why he did it) has a really bad impact in some
> > > cases.
> >
> > It was necessary to correctly handle locally generated ICMP errors.
>
> Well you most likely wrecked local performance then when it's enabled.

so you would favour a system that incorrectly deals with ICMP errors but
has higher performance?

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- Harald Welte <laforge@netfilter.org> http://netfilter.org/
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