On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 10:17:48AM +0100, Timo Schoeler wrote:
> thus Pasi Kärkkäinen spake:
> > On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 09:36:57PM +0200, sadas sadas wrote:
> >> I will explain more deeply. I need to deploy a firewall(s) in front of web
> >> server farm because I need to do billing - I will use CentOS with iptables
> >> + ipset to store a list if my clients so when client doesn't pay his
> >> server's IP is out of the list and he can't access the web server.
> >>
> >> Second - I know that iptables is very heavy and it's not recommended to
> >> use it in gigabit firewall but I don't have a choice as far as I know only
> >> ipset works with iptables. I don't know can pf store 500 IPs in one list.
> >> Ipset is written for that purpose.
> >>
> >> I can't find information is there linux or BSD distribution with effective
> >> firewall that uses optimized algorithm to store hundreds of IPs and to
> >> forward huge traffic. Any idea?
> >>
> >
> > I've been using Linux (CentOS5) on gigabit firewalls, for thousands of
> > users. No problems.
>
> Yeah, but what is your ruleset?
>
Hundreds of chains, thousands of rules..
> > Just make sure ip_conntrack_max is big enough, so you don't run out of
> > connections.
>
> Just three months ago I saw a CentOS L2TP cluster explode because of
> this -- and the machines have _plenty_ of RAM each. Turned off
> ip[6]tables entirely and let the Ciscos do this was the only solution.
>
The default values are way too low. First step is to increase that
value.
> > There are other things to tune to optimize the performance, but it's
> > certainly doable with linux+iptables.
>
> Nail, hammer, etc. ;)
>
-- Pasi
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