On Sat, 1 Jan 2000, Ketil Froyn wrote:

> On Sat, 1 Jan 2000, Andrew Taylor wrote:
> 
> [snipped ipchains script]
> 
> I was suddenly curious... I can see the need for a script like this, but
> how (in)efficient is something like this? What is the overhead of checking
> each packet against a potentially large number of rules before it is
> accepted? Anyone made some measurements?
> 
> -- 
> Ketil Froyn                           The probability of someone
> University of Oslo                    watching you is proportional
> Norway                                to the stupidity of your action.

Hi,

Hmm, I've never really thought about it. I don't think that is too many
rules to have. What do you think would be a sufficient amount? Can you see
rules in my script which you think could be handled more efficenlt?

Andy

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