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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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  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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