Re: Performance of iptables-restore on large rule sets

2005-01-31 Thread Harald Welte
On Fri, Jan 28, 2005 at 12:56:30PM -0600, Steve Bergman wrote: > I have a large rule set (~53000 rules) that I sometimes load using > iptables-restore. (It takes almost an hour. That's really slow. I've seen multiple minutes, but an hour? What kind of system is this? How does the ruleset

Re: Performance of iptables-restore on large rule sets

2005-01-31 Thread Harald Welte
On Fri, Jan 28, 2005 at 12:56:30PM -0600, Steve Bergman wrote: I have a large rule set (~53000 rules) that I sometimes load using iptables-restore. (It takes almost an hour. That's really slow. I've seen multiple minutes, but an hour? What kind of system is this? How does the ruleset look

Re: Performance of iptables-restore on large rule sets

2005-01-28 Thread Martin Josefsson
On Fri, 2005-01-28 at 12:56 -0600, Steve Bergman wrote: > I have a large rule set (~53000 rules) that I sometimes load using > iptables-restore. (It takes almost an hour. > > Googling around tells me that the loop detection code in the kernel is > slow with large rule sets. The only thing

Performance of iptables-restore on large rule sets

2005-01-28 Thread Steve Bergman
I have a large rule set (~53000 rules) that I sometimes load using iptables-restore. (It takes almost an hour. Googling around tells me that the loop detection code in the kernel is slow with large rule sets. The only thing that seems odd to me is that throughout the entire loading process,

Performance of iptables-restore on large rule sets

2005-01-28 Thread Steve Bergman
I have a large rule set (~53000 rules) that I sometimes load using iptables-restore. (It takes almost an hour. Googling around tells me that the loop detection code in the kernel is slow with large rule sets. The only thing that seems odd to me is that throughout the entire loading process,

Re: Performance of iptables-restore on large rule sets

2005-01-28 Thread Martin Josefsson
On Fri, 2005-01-28 at 12:56 -0600, Steve Bergman wrote: I have a large rule set (~53000 rules) that I sometimes load using iptables-restore. (It takes almost an hour. Googling around tells me that the loop detection code in the kernel is slow with large rule sets. The only thing that