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From: Thomas Delrue <delrue.thomas@gmail.com>
To: netfilter@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Limitation on number of rules
Date: Wed, 9 Sep 2015 09:32:43 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <55F034FB.7000104@gmail.com> (raw)

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Hi,

Is there an upper limit on how many rules one can have in total or per
chain?
I realize that this is limited by the memory available to the machine
but is there a formula that one can use to determine how much memory
will be needed/is used is one has X rules.

Thanks
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