Re: NAT performance + table processing

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В Чтв, 09/08/2007 в 19:44 +0200, Július Bemš пишет:
> Hi,
> 
> I wrote some performance tests of NAT table. The main idea is, that I add
> 10000 random+senseless rules to the NAT table (snat, postrouting) and then I
> add some rule to specific position which will stop traversing of NAT table.
> I use UDP packets. 
> 
> When I insert my reasonable rule to position 2000 and  run my test, it shows
> delay of packets cca 300ms. But when I run it more times, this delay is 2ms.
> I don't understand why, because I use UDP(connectionless) - so I think, that
> netfilter must process each packet and find appropriate rule. Is this true?
> Or does netfilter do some optimalization? Because this behavior is expected
> in TCP, but not UDP.

UDP is connectionless, you are right. But conntrack thinks of it like of
connection-oriented. If several UDP packets have the same source IPs and
ports and same destination IPs and ports conntrack thinks those are
belonging to the same "connection".

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