RE: Machine freezes when loading pf ruleset

2015-08-27 Thread Kolontai Andrej
>The patch provided at https://reviews.freebsd.org/D3503 should help your case. >During a full ruleset reload, taking into account so many rules, you will >impact normal packet processing. >Hence you have the feeling of the box being frozen or not forwarding traffic. >That patch reduces the overh

Re: Machine freezes when loading pf ruleset

2015-08-27 Thread Ermal Luçi
On Wed, Aug 26, 2015 at 4:09 PM, Kolontai Andrej < andrej.kolon...@verwaltung.uni-muenchen.de> wrote: > >1.5k rules seems like a lot for PF to handle. > > > >Is that 1.5k rules you've written in the conf, or 1.5k rules from `pfctl > -sr | wc -l' ? > > Yes, that's what is in the conf files. The lat