Do you compile IPFilter by yourself ?

In many version of IPfilter source code, the Pfil Makefile set the debug
flag on by default.

You may check Pfil Makefile in your code to make sure PFILDEBUG is not
set. E.g

PFILDEBUG=

It highly impacts network performance with this flag on.


Andrew


On Tue, 2007-02-13 at 16:08 +0100, Buozis, Martynas wrote:
> Hello
> 
> I am running IPFilter installation on Solaris 8 (Generic_117350-41).
> PFIL version is  2.1.11,REV=10:54:27 11/16/06.
> 
> We noticed, that PFIL is causing big impact to network performance even
> when IPFilter is stopped (just PFIL is loaded) and no rules are present.
> 2GB file copy from NFS server took 35 minutes with PFIL loaded, while
> without PFIL only 3 minutes were required to copy same file.
> 
> Can somebody advice were problem is with PFIL ?
> 
> 
> With best regards
> Martynas
> 
> 
> 

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