Need help!

[Frank Wiles]

On Sun, 1 May 2005 20:27:02 -0700 (PDT)
Jack <quiet_celt at yahoo.com> wrote:

> I have about half of the addresses blocked, but what
> is 
> the impact of adding 150 ip addresses to iptables with
> potentially hundreds more over time? At what point
> will iptables eat up all my bandwidth in blocking
> addresses?

  Just to add to what Dave said... 

  I have a production server that is fairly low end hardware that
  currently has 2952 iptables rules that block individual IPs, several
  /24 networks, and a handful of /16s.  There is no noticeble impact 
  on the box. 

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   Frank Wiles <frank at wiles.org>
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