From: Tom Eastep <teastep@shorewall.net>
To: netfilter@lists.netfilter.org
Subject: Re: adding rules - slow
Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2007 15:31:24 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <46AA723C.4090307@shorewall.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1185572284.10031.2.camel@localhost>
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John A. Sullivan III wrote:
>
> We handle it by adding rules via iptables-restore rather than iptables.
> The load time difference is remarkable. You write your rules into files
> with very similar syntax to iptables and then direct them into
> iptables-restore, e.g.,
The new Perl-based Shorewall rules compiler has adopted this same strategy.
As John says, the difference in performance is remarkable.
-Tom
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-07-27 22:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-07-27 21:30 adding rules - slow Július Bemš
2007-07-27 21:38 ` John A. Sullivan III
2007-07-27 22:31 ` Tom Eastep [this message]
2007-08-01 7:24 ` Július Bemš
2007-08-01 7:29 ` Eric Leblond
2007-08-01 7:40 ` Покотиленко Костик
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