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?
> 
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