i m flooding an interface using hping with UDP packets . I have a rule iptables -A INPUT -p udp -j DROP I can see all packets are getting dropped . i can see processor utilization is high using "top" command and system becomes slow . But while flooding , if i add rule iptables -I INPUT -j ACCEPT . still packets gets dropped . But if i stop flooding and start hping again { with same rules } , packets are accepted . Note : I am working on an embedded enviornement with 128kB of RAM . any hints is really appreciated . Thanks, Ratheesh. -- 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