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". -- Покотиленко Костик <casper@xxxxxxxxxxxx>