On Wednesday 11 June 2003 02:51, Robert Penz wrote: > On Wednesday 11 June 2003 02:35, Esteban Ribicic wrote: > > im trying to debug how cpu consuming could be the string match. > > is it a lineal function? i mean.. > > did you look at this project > > http://l7-filter.sourceforge.net/ The provided patches will only examine the first 8 bytes of a connection to determine the type of traffic. So if you have 1 big download, only 8 packets are checked. This can be done because the l7 patches uses netfilter code to do connection tracking. Stef -- stef.coene@xxxxxxxxx "Using Linux as bandwidth manager" http://www.docum.org/ #lartc @ irc.oftc.net
