Hi there, On Sat, 1 Dec 2007, Enrico Weigelt wrote: > * G.W. Haywood <ged@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > On Fri, 30 Nov 2007, Enrico Weigelt wrote: > > > > > ... I wondered why netfilter doesn't do the kernel interface > > > entirely via an synthetic filesystem (or maybe within sysfs). ... > > > > Performance? > > Really ? > How often are the netfilter rules touched ? More than once a day ? > And is it really that much more expensive to call sscanf() than > first creating the netlink packages and later parsing them again ? It was just a suggestion. http://lists.netfilter.org/pipermail/netfilter/2007-July/069325.html -- 73, Ged. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netfilter" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html