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Date:      Thu, 14 Sep 2006 11:09:02 -0400
From:      Barney Wolff <barney@databus.com>
To:        Phil Regnauld <regnauld@catpipe.net>
Cc:        freebsd-net@freebsd.org, Willem Jan Withagen <wjw@digiware.nl>
Subject:   Re: blocking a string in a packet using ipfw
Message-ID:  <20060914150902.GA17230@pit.databus.com>
In-Reply-To: <20060914134611.GW76403@catpipe.net>
References:  <4509592A.3040602@digiware.nl> <20060914134611.GW76403@catpipe.net>

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On Thu, Sep 14, 2006 at 03:46:12PM +0200, Phil Regnauld wrote:
> Willem Jan Withagen (wjw) writes:
> > 
> > Now I'm pretty shure that ipfw does not stretch indefinitely to contain
> > perhaps something like 100.000 ip-numbers (would be a nice test. :) )
> 
> 	Actually, it should.

I have over 600000 addresses in an ipfw table with no observable trouble.
But that rule is triggered only about 10000 times a day (part of a spam
blocker).

-- 
Barney Wolff         I never met a computer I didn't like.



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