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From: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@inai.de>
To: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
Cc: Jim Mellander <jmellander@lbl.gov>, netfilter@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Netfilter applied to specific interfaces only
Date: Mon, 11 Mar 2013 08:55:19 +0100 (CET)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.LNX.2.01.1303110846470.30173@nerf07.vanv.qr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130309221044.GA3419@localhost>

On Saturday 2013-03-09 23:10, Pablo Neira Ayuso wrote:
>On Fri, Mar 08, 2013 at 08:52:37PM +0100, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
>>On Friday 2013-03-08 20:14, Jim Mellander wrote:
>>>
>>>just having the iptables kernel module loaded without any ruleset 
>>>substantially reduces performance at high traffic rates.
>>
>>This one is a known issue with ip_tables/x_tables, and solved in 
>>xtables2 where you can deallocate the base chains when empty -- (more 
>>accurately, they do not exist by default and need to be created first) 
>>-- given finer control over what is being executed.
>
>Just for the record: this idea was initially introduced by nftables 
>back in 2009.

This is now recorded in the xt2 userdoc, where a section has been added 
indicating capability origin by date and thereby implementation.

  reply	other threads:[~2013-03-11  7:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-03-08 19:14 Netfilter applied to specific interfaces only Jim Mellander
2013-03-08 19:52 ` Jan Engelhardt
2013-03-09 22:10   ` Pablo Neira Ayuso
2013-03-11  7:55     ` Jan Engelhardt [this message]
2013-03-10 14:34 ` Humberto Jucá
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2013-03-11  2:46 Neal Murphy
2013-03-11 11:42 ` Humberto Jucá
2013-03-15 17:36 ` Jim Mellander
2013-03-15 19:25   ` Jozsef Kadlecsik

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