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Let me be a bit clearer... I use a 50+ line script to generate those
rules.  No way that I am going to write 27000+ lines of 90% the same
thing.  ;-)


> Ram is the only limit I have seen in the kernel specs on it. For most
> modern systems that are mostly dedicated to firewalling, the wire speed
> will always be the limiting factor. The iptables process (barring
> strange loops that are VERY BAD) is a quite streamlined, multi-threaded
> process. I do know that performance can suffer if rule ordering is poor
> and every packet is forced through every table. I get pretty good
> results with a table for each protocol/port that is allowed that nees
> further filtering to block out bozo's (morons doing ssh scans should get
> blocked on all ports as they are up to no good)

Thanks,

-Jim P.




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