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From: "Mike A. Harris" <mharris@opensourceadvocate.org>
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To: David Findlay <david_j_findlay@yahoo.com.au>
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Subject: Re: IP Acounting Idea for 2.5
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On Tue, 17 Apr 2001, David Findlay wrote:

>> Perhaps I misunderstand what it is exactly you are trying to do,
>> but I would think that this could be done entirely in userland by
>> software that just adds rules for you instead of you having to do
>> it manually.
>
>I suppose, but it would be so much easier if the kernel did it automatically.
>Having a rule to go through for each IP address to be logged would be slower
>than implementing one rule that would log all of them. Doing this in the
>kernel would improve preformance.

I don't think it would, but then only benchmarking it both ways
would know for sure.  Even with incredibly large rulesets,
ipchains &&/|| netfilter works admirably well.  Rusty?


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