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From: "Neal P. Murphy" <neal.p.murphy@alum.wpi.edu>
Cc: netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org, netfilter@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Reload IPtables
Date: Mon, 28 Jun 2021 22:02:41 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210628220241.64f9af54@playground> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210628104310.61bd287ff147a59b12e23533@plushkava.net>

On Mon, 28 Jun 2021 10:43:10 +0100
Kerin Millar <kfm@plushkava.net> wrote:

> Now you benefit from atomicity (the rules will either be committed at once, in full, or not at all) and proper error handling (the exit status value of iptables-restore is meaningful and acted upon). Further, should you prefer to indent the body of the heredoc, you may write <<-EOF, though only leading tab characters will be stripped out.
> 

[minor digression]

Is iptables-restore truly atomic in *all* cases? Some years ago, I found through experimentation that some rules were 'lost' when restoring more than 25 000 rules. If I placed a COMMIT every 20 000 rules or so, then all rules would be properly loaded. I think COMMITs break atomicity. I tested with 100k to 1M rules. I was comparing the efficiency of iptables-restore with another tool that read from STDIN; the other tool was about 5% more efficient.

  reply	other threads:[~2021-06-29  2:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 45+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <08f069e3-914f-204a-dfd6-a56271ec1e55.ref@att.net>
2021-06-25 19:24 ` Reload IPtables slow_speed
2021-06-25 20:51   ` David Hajes
2021-06-25 21:30     ` slow_speed
2021-06-25 22:20       ` Stephen Satchell
     [not found]       ` <cd80bdd2-7816-f27f-d3fe-5042d213700e@satchell.net>
2021-06-25 22:37         ` slow_speed
2021-06-25 23:43       ` Reindl Harald
2021-06-25 23:47         ` slow_speed
2021-06-25 23:52           ` Reindl Harald
2021-06-26  7:19           ` David Hajes
2021-06-26 10:13             ` Reindl Harald
2021-06-26 10:27               ` David Hajes
2021-06-26 10:43                 ` Reindl Harald
2021-06-26 10:54                   ` David Hajes
2021-06-28  7:32                   ` Alessandro Vesely, Alessandro Vesely
2021-06-28  7:46                     ` Reindl Harald
2021-06-28  9:23                       ` Alessandro Vesely, Alessandro Vesely
2021-06-28  9:43                         ` Kerin Millar
2021-06-29  2:02                           ` Neal P. Murphy [this message]
     [not found]                             ` <20210629083652.GA10896@salvia>
2021-06-29  8:37                               ` Pablo Neira Ayuso
2021-07-01  1:49                                 ` Neal P. Murphy
2021-06-29  9:10                             ` Kerin Millar
2021-06-28 10:17                         ` Reindl Harald
2021-06-28 11:47                           ` Alessandro Vesely, Alessandro Vesely
2021-06-28 12:03                             ` Reindl Harald
2021-06-28 13:46                               ` Kerin Millar
2021-06-28 16:35                                 ` Reindl Harald
2021-06-28 17:10                                   ` Kerin Millar
2021-06-28 17:16                                     ` Reindl Harald
2021-06-28 17:35                               ` Alessandro Vesely, Alessandro Vesely
2021-06-28 18:15                                 ` Reindl Harald
2021-06-28 13:36                             ` Stephen Satchell
2021-06-27 14:56             ` slow_speed
2021-06-27 15:46               ` G.W. Haywood
2021-06-27 18:29               ` Stephen Satchell
2021-06-27 18:11           ` Kerin Millar
2021-06-27 18:32             ` slow_speed
2021-06-27 18:57               ` Reindl Harald
2021-06-27 20:57                 ` slow_speed
2021-06-27 21:33                   ` Reindl Harald
2021-06-27 19:07               ` Kerin Millar
2021-06-27 19:10                 ` Kerin Millar
2021-06-27 19:56                 ` Stephen Satchell
2021-06-27 20:12                   ` Kerin Millar
2021-06-27 20:20                     ` Reindl Harald
2021-06-27 19:43               ` Stephen Satchell

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