maximum number of iptables rules?

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Hi, me and a buddy of mine are working on a perl script to automate blocking of about 3000 IP addresses.
The script works fine on his box, x86. But on my box, sparc, I seem to have a limitation of 854 rules before I start to get errors and am unable to add anymore rules.
Is there a maximum number of rules per chain? or overall?



Here is the information on my Sparc box.


null:~# iptables -t filter -I INPUT 1 -s 66.28.224.0/19 -p all -j blockme
iptables: Memory allocation problem


null:~# iptables -t filter -I INPUT 1 -s 1.2.3.4/19 -p all -j blockme
iptables: Memory allocation problem
null:~# uname -a
Linux null 2.4.21 #1 Thu Aug 7 20:30:12 EDT 2003 sparc64 GNU/Linux
null:~#

null:~# iptables -L blockme
Chain blockme(854 references)
target     prot opt source               destination
DROP       all  --  anywhere             anywhere


Here is the info about my buddy's. x86 box

root@darkside:/etc/rc.d# uname -a; iptables -L blockme; iptables --version
Linux darkside 2.5.50-ac1 #3 SMP Sun Feb 9 10:21:53 PST 2003 i686 unknown
Chain blockme(3966 references)
target prot opt source destination DROP all -- anywhere anywhere iptables v1.2.7a



Any help is greatly appreciated. -r0b




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