On Thu, May 27, 2004 at 04:56:41PM -0400, Jim Zajkowski wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hi all, > > Does anyone have any experience with the number of rules a bridge can > handle? We're thinking about how our wireless network policy, and we'd > like to filter by MAC -- allow connection we know about (with pf) and > redirect everyone else into a "please call this number" web page. I'm > concerned about pushing 500 or more rules onto a bridge just to tag > which MACs we know about versus which we don't.
bridge rules are stored on a linked list and evaluated for every packet thus having many rules will definitely affect performance. Although you should be able to evaluate the performance easily within your environment. > University environments can be so interesting. :-) :)
