From owner-freebsd-current Fri Jan 7 14:48:21 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from modemcable126.102-200-24.mtl.mc.videotron.net (modemcable156.106-200-24.mtl.mc.videotron.net [24.200.106.156]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 2A18915887 for ; Fri, 7 Jan 2000 14:48:19 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from patrick@mindstep.com) Received: (qmail 52643 invoked from network); 7 Jan 2000 22:48:15 -0000 Received: from dhcp-mtl-200.local.mindstep.com (HELO patrak) (192.168.10.200) by jacuzzi.local.mindstep.com with SMTP; 7 Jan 2000 22:48:15 -0000 Message-ID: <014501bf5961$48cc6dc0$c80aa8c0@local.mindstep.com> From: "Patrick Bihan-Faou" To: "Rodney W. Grimes" Cc: "Luigi Rizzo" , "Harold Gutch" , , "Nate Williams" References: <200001072234.OAA13343@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> Subject: Re: ipfw optimizations Date: Fri, 7 Jan 2000 17:48:15 -0500 Organization: MindStep Corporation MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2314.1300 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2314.1300 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > No, this is completly reasonable now that I understand what it is your > proposing. Even the memory footprint is minimal if pointers to the > actual rules is all we store in the per interface list, my largest set > duplicated over 8 interfaces would only be 3200 rules. Stored as > pointers to rules this would be all of 12.8kbytes, certainly not > enough to worry about :-). Good.... I felt like I was stupid for a while here ;-) > Come up with some patches and I'll be glad to test and review them > for you... I'll get on that as soon as I am done with that paying job I am doing now :(. Which probably means sometime next week. (don't you hate to have these bills to pay ?) Patrick. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message