[TriLUG] IPTables throughput limitations?

crimsun at fungus.sh.nu crimsun at fungus.sh.nu
Thu Apr 22 14:59:26 EDT 2004


[Sorry, lost the original attribution]

On Thu, Apr 22, 2004 at 10:52:10AM -0400, Jeremy Portzer wrote:
> Actually, we used it last year at the Durham Tech installfest and tried
> to do some network installs through it.  It didn't fare so well; the
> installs were pitifully slow, much slower than the 100MBit network on
> both sides.  This wasn't really due to iptables though, but the
> throughput limitations of the PCMCIA bus on that older laptop.

Netfilter+iptables in 2.6.5 at least has to be loaded with several
thousands of rules before things will start to crunch.

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Daniel T. Chen          crimsun at fungus.sh.nu
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