Re: iptables performance and alternatives

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> I have fixed some of the ruleset parsing issues in libiptc. (50k chains 
> ruleset listing reduced from 5 minuts to 0.5 sec).
> 
[..]
> There are still some libiptc scalability issues left... That I promised 
> Patrick I would solve... Lets hope I'll fix them before the workshop ;-)

That's great news, hopefully those changes will end up in the mainline
releases pretty soon ;-)

> If doing a lot of rule changes, you should definitly use iptables-restore 
> or CPAN perl module IPTables::libiptc.

Incidentally, what happens during the time changes are being processed
by iptables-restore/the kernel. More specifically, do I need to
worry about packets being blocked/dropped when I would do a lot of
rule updates?

    Regards,
           Thomas

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