Re: Maximum Number of Chains

[Paul Caritj <pcaritj@riovia.net>]

Agreed,
Heres my situatuation: I need to create rules on the fly for 
(potentially) up to 4000 users. What I need is a way to delete *all* the 
rules for a given ip address without knowing the full contents of the 
rule (only the ip); as you might have guessed, I'm doing this 
programatically.

My current solution is to have one chain for each associated IP. Is 
there a better solution to this problem?

As for memory...I can have as much as I need, if anyone knows how much 
that would be. :)

Tim Evans wrote:

>On Wed, 3 Sep 2003 09:25:51 +1000, George Vieira wrote
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>>How much memory do you have???
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>>I've added at once stage around 500+ rules in once chain alone, if 
>>that helps you in anyway..
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>Seems to me if you have to ask about the maximum number of rules, you already
>have too many. There are ways to create general rules that apply to many
>cases--i.e., address ranges, port ranges, etc.
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