I've set up a complex firewall with ipchains with more then 800 rules.
No performance tradeoff yet.
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Frank
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On Wed, 9 Jun 1999, Friedrich Lobenstock wrote:
> Date: Wed, 09 Jun 1999 13:20:19 +0200
> From: Friedrich Lobenstock <fl@fl.priv.at>
> To: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu>
> Subject: Q: ipchains and limitations in (accounting) rules
>
> I'm curious if there are any limitations on the amount of accounting
> rule in the linux kernel. I couldn't find any in the source of the
> kernel or ipchains.
> I could think of a drop in tcp/ip performance of the kernel with a
> curtain amount of (accounting) rules in a chain.
>
> MfG / Regards
> Friedrich
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