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From: Arkadiusz Miskiewicz <a.miskiewicz@gmail.com>
To: Kyle Moffett <kyle@moffetthome.net>
Subject: Re: iptables very slow after commit 784544739a25c30637397ace5489eeb6e15d7d49
Date: Sat, 11 Apr 2009 20:32:48 +0200
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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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