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From: Radek Kanovsky <rk@dat.cz>
To: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@medozas.de>
Cc: netfilter@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: iptables rules in comparable form
Date: Tue, 1 Jun 2010 21:36:29 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100601193629.GC19088@q.uh.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LSU.2.01.1006012020370.15461@obet.zrqbmnf.qr>

On Tue, Jun 01, 2010 at 08:26:30PM +0200, Jan Engelhardt wrote:

> Sounds like you need xt_quota2. As its counters are independent of
> rules when given names, they can never get set back to a value
> less than what they were.

I wanted to avoid any nonstandard packages but this looks promissing.
I will take a look. Thanks.

> As I said before, there is no concept of unchanged rules.
> 
> When you iptables -A, the entire ruleset is fetched from the kernel,
> then modified, and finally reinserted - even when having only
> added a single rule.

But I have scalability problems even if there is declared O(N)
complexity of iptables-restore. There is a really big difference
if counters are reset at 9:14:01 or at 9:14:53. I am not sure
what COMMIT during restoration exactly do but can't it be 
used for tuning in such cases?

Radek Kanovsky

  reply	other threads:[~2010-06-01 19:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-06-01  8:10 iptables rules in comparable form Radek Kanovsky
2010-06-01  8:50 ` Jan Engelhardt
2010-06-01  9:18   ` Mart Frauenlob
2010-06-01 11:25     ` Radek Kanovsky
2010-06-01 11:56       ` Jan Engelhardt
2010-06-01 16:03         ` Radek Kanovsky
2010-06-01 18:19           ` Jan Engelhardt
2010-06-01 18:35             ` Radek Kanovsky
2010-06-01 18:01         ` Radek Kanovsky
2010-06-01 18:26           ` Jan Engelhardt
2010-06-01 19:36             ` Radek Kanovsky [this message]
2010-06-01 20:29               ` Pieter Smit
2010-06-02  6:17                 ` Radek Kanovsky
2010-06-01 13:27       ` Mart Frauenlob
2010-06-01 16:47         ` Radek Kanovsky

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