From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jun 24 16: 2:46 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from maile.telia.com (maile.telia.com [194.22.190.16]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 866DB37B400 for ; Mon, 24 Jun 2002 16:02:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: from d1o913.telia.com (d1o913.telia.com [195.252.44.241]) by maile.telia.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g5ON2dp07007 for ; Tue, 25 Jun 2002 01:02:40 +0200 (CEST) Received: from falcon.midgard.homeip.net (h53n2fls20o913.telia.com [212.181.163.53]) by d1o913.telia.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id BAA13412 for ; Tue, 25 Jun 2002 01:02:38 +0200 (CEST) Received: (qmail 6441 invoked by uid 1001); 24 Jun 2002 23:02:37 -0000 Date: Tue, 25 Jun 2002 01:02:37 +0200 From: Erik Trulsson To: Darren Pilgrim Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Speed of me vs. specific address mask in ipfw? Message-ID: <20020624230237.GA6401@falcon.midgard.homeip.net> Mail-Followup-To: Darren Pilgrim , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <3D17A23D.8DB3DEF4@pantherdragon.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3D17A23D.8DB3DEF4@pantherdragon.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, Jun 24, 2002 at 03:50:37PM -0700, Darren Pilgrim wrote: > Which is faster to match in ipfw, the "me" keyword or a specific address > mask? A specific address mask should be faster. Using the "me" keyword means that ipfw has to check what interfaces you have and what adresses they have every time the rule is used. (This also means that when using the "me" keyword one doesn't have to worry about the IP numbers changing on dynamic interfaces. -- Erik Trulsson ertr1013@student.uu.se To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message