Re: CARP and OUT rules

Il 08/09/2011 02:01, Joey Morin ha scritto:
> On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 5:41 PM, Tonix (Antonio Nati)
> <[email protected]>wrote:
>
>> Il 07/09/2011 22:32, Joey Morin ha scritto:
>>
>>   On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 11:53 AM, Tonix (Antonio Nati)
>>> <[email protected]>wrote:
>>>
>>>   With this small change manageability would become fantastic for ISP
>>>> environments.
>>>> Rules would be much less, and general speed of monowall would be better.
>>>>
>>>>   while i agree that this kind of feature would be much easier to manage
>>> and
>>> maintain (especially in a situation with soooo many interfaces), it's
>>> unlikely that it would improve performance.  i suspect that the
>>> configuration feature you seek would still need to generate individual
>>> rules
>>> for each interface, either at configuration time or dynamically at run
>>> time.
>>>
>>>
>> Why?
>>
> i assumed that ipfilter would manage queues for each interface, rather than
> one big queue for the whole box.
>
You assume or you are sure about?
Watching how IP filter works, I think there is simply a large table to 
scan, until a definitve STOP or OK is found.

Tonino


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