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Good morning, Pierre...

On Saturday 15 March 2003 06:19 am, Pierre Fortin wrote:

> I may have a look at the code; but rather than "strings", I would think
> quick-exit protocol-diving would be a better approach...  but that's just
> me...

No, you're very right. I've let the box running strings under IPTables run
for nearly 12 hours, and I think your conclusions about it are pretty
accurate. It bogs down the system, particularly because it is only running
64M of memory. However, I added a few sticks of SDRAM this morning and
compared it to last night's performance, and I didn't see that much
difference. However, when I compared the overall performance of the box with
another identical box running standard IPTables, I still noticed a
performance hit. 

I'm not that enamored of the idea. Back to the drawing board. Thanks to
everyone who gave input to this idea. It *does* block strings from Code Red,
but at a pretty substantial performance hit. 

Dave
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