Re: Slow iptables impatient cron solved

2002-02-20 Thread Tony Crawford
I wrote (on 20 Feb 2002 at 13:08): Karl E. Jorgensen wrote (on 20 Feb 2002 at 9:57): On Wed, Feb 20, 2002 at 09:13:47AM +0100, Tony Crawford wrote: Hi Gang! [...] Running iptables -L by hand, I see that it's very slow. It takes a minute or two to read out the FORWARD chain in

Re: Slow iptables impatient cron solved

2002-02-20 Thread Alan James
On Wed, Feb 20, 2002 at 03:16:15PM +0100, Tony Crawford wrote: By experimenting, I found out that the long lookup occurred when my iptables rules used a netmask that does not correspond to a known subnet, namely 192.168.2.0/28 when the local network is 192.168.2.0/24. iptables was

Re: Slow iptables impatient cron solved

2002-02-20 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Tony Crawford ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020220 06:14]: Meanwhile, while we're on the subject, is there a way I can make cron (or run-parts or whoever) wait longer for the output before timing out? Or maybe detach the process? Or is that a bad idea? What if you had 2 separate jobs: one runs

Re: Slow iptables impatient cron solved

2002-02-20 Thread Tony Crawford
Alan James wrote (on 20 Feb 2002 at 15:53): On Wed, Feb 20, 2002 at 03:16:15PM +0100, Tony Crawford wrote: By experimenting, I found out that the long lookup occurred when my iptables rules used a netmask that does not correspond to a known subnet, namely 192.168.2.0/28 when the local