We have a 10Mbps link, but actual email traffic is much less than than, perhaps a 1Mbps or less at any given time. Upon further thought, I don't think the list would approach 500, let alone 1,000. So maybe it isnt that huge of an issue after all.
On Thu, 3 Jun 2004 13:41:32 -0700, Bob Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > perdurabo wrote: > > > 1.) Will having large IPTables rulesets cause a significant > > performance hit? > > What is your Internet connection speed? If it's anything less than 10 > Mbits, I strongly doubt you can saturate the CPU with IPtables > filtering. Organize the rulesets so that LAN traffic never goes > through the big table, of course. > > How many rules are you planning? On the order of 1,000 to 10,000, > or a lot more? > > -- > Bob Miller K<bob> > kbobsoft software consulting > http://kbobsoft.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > _______________________________________________ > EUGLUG mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug > _______________________________________________ EUGLUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug