On Thu, Mar 14, 2002 at 02:32:51PM -0800, Americo Melara wrote: > Hi, I'm working on my thesis and need some help. I am doing performance > measurements to understand how much overhead does iptables create in the > stack when processing a single packt by varying the number and type of rules, > and payload size of each packet.
Could you please describe the exact details on how you measure the performance? What are the rulesets, which plugins/extensions are loaded, do you use a modular or statically compiled kernel, is it a SMP box, do you use connection tracking, .... Otherwise it's just guessing in the dark. > Americo Melara -- Live long and prosper - Harald Welte / [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.gnumonks.org/ ============================================================================ GCS/E/IT d- s-: a-- C+++ UL++++$ P+++ L++++$ E--- W- N++ o? K- w--- O- M+ V-- PS++ PE-- Y++ PGP++ t+ 5-- !X !R tv-- b+++ !DI !D G+ e* h--- r++ y+(*)
