On Sat, Aug 30, 2003 at 12:16:13AM -0400, Paul Caritj spoke thusly: >Greetings, I hope everyone is well. >Though I suspect the subject line adequately conveys my question, I will >restate it: Does anyone out there know the maximum number of chains per >table? No idea what is the maximum. But the more rules you add, the slower the additions become (I think Harald mentioned this previously). Also, if you have a long list of rules (eg: 700 different rules within the FORWARD chain) -- and you decide to remove rule #467. All the rules need to be copied to a temporary area, rule #467 removed, everything from the temporary buffer copied back. That adds to the slowness. I think the devel guys are working on tweaking the table type used in the 2.5/2.6 kernels. They should be able to shed more information, or you can dig through the archives.
