Glynn, Thats good to know, for some reason I have always been under the impression that connection tracking could have a significant memory requirement. Jeff On Wed, 2004-07-21 at 15:02, Glynn Clements wrote: > Jeff Largent wrote: > > > I'll let you correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't ip filtering also a > > memory requirement? I'm thinks specifically of connection tracking. > > All of them have memory requirements. Connection tracking is probably > going to be the least significant of those, although, unlike > user-space daemons, it requires physical RAM rather than swap. Even > so, connection tracking needs an extra few bytes per connection, > whereas a daemon which forks for each connection may require a few > hundred Kb or more per connection. - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-admin" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
