linux-kernel - Re: iptables very slow after commit 784544739a25c30637397ace5489eeb6e15d7d49

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Date:	Sat, 11 Apr 2009 20:32:48 +0200
From:	Arkadiusz Miskiewicz <a.miskiewicz@...il.com>
To:	Kyle Moffett <kyle@...fetthome.net>
Cc:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, jengelh@...ozas.de,
	paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com, torvalds@...ux-foundation.org,
	mingo@...e.hu, laijs@...fujitsu.com, shemminger@...tta.com,
	jeff.chua.linux@...il.com, dada1@...mosbay.com, kaber@...sh.net,
	r000n@...0n.net, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	netfilter-devel@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: iptables very slow after commit 784544739a25c30637397ace5489eeb6e15d7d49

On Saturday 11 of April 2009, Kyle Moffett wrote:

> Almost all of the standard firewall tools (such as shorewall, etc) are
> already using iptables-restore command to load firewall rules,
> primarily because using separate iptables commands was *already* way
> too slow.  

Some time ago there was batch patch that allowed to use standard shell format 
of calling iptables but did everything at once:

http://lists.netfilter.org/pipermail/netfilter-devel/2004-
September/016704.html

It didn't get merged - no idea why.

-- 
Arkadiusz Miśkiewicz        PLD/Linux Team
arekm / maven.pl            http://ftp.pld-linux.org/

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