From: Eli Hadad <elhadad@cisco.com>
To: Matt Zagrabelny <mzagrabe@d.umn.edu>
Cc: netfilter@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: iptables and performance
Date: Tue, 13 May 2008 20:03:34 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1210709014.5829.275.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1210692588.545.119.camel@grateful.d.umn.edu>
Hi Matt,
I guess this is what I was looking for.
Thanks again,
Eli
On Tue, 2008-05-13 at 10:29 -0500, Matt Zagrabelny wrote:
> On Tue, 2008-05-13 at 09:59 +0300, Eli Hadad wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I am new to iptables and have few question I hope you can help with:
> > 1. Is there a limit to the number of rules I can add to specific chain?
> > I need to have around 20000 rules.
> > 2. What is the performance implications of using this large number of
> > rules? Is there any numbers people can share.
> > 3. I also saw the HIPAC project which claim to have much better
> > performance. Is there any work done to integrate same type of
> > functionality into iptables?
>
> Google: hipac ipset
>
> Look at the first pdf link. It talks about performance and netfilter. It
> also addresses HIPAC and ipset.
>
> I would say that you want to look at ipset.
>
> Cheers,
>
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2008-05-13 6:59 ` iptables and performance Eli Hadad
2008-05-13 15:29 ` Matt Zagrabelny
2008-05-13 20:03 ` Eli Hadad [this message]
2008-05-13 16:24 ` Grant Taylor
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