On Wednesday 11 December 2002 01:12 pm, nedco@unacs.bg wrote: > Hi, > How to load fast about 20000 rules in iptables. > If some document will be help , please let me know :) > > Thanks a lot > Nedco As long as you don't need to dynamically define the rules (IE using a dynamic IP) iptables-save and iptables-restore should be your simple answer. Oscar's tutorial explains save and restore at: http://iptables-tutorial.frozentux.net/chunkyhtml/saveandrestore.html These will load the complete ruleset in a very few operations, instead of about 40000. (based on your 20000 figure above) j
