blackbox@openface.ca (Erik Rungi) writes:
> Rules | latency(1)      | thpt| latency(2)
>   800 | 1.9/2.0/3.4     | 830 | 2.4/14.3/42.9
>   600 | 1.6/1.6/2.5     | 840 | 1.6/11.6/26.6
>   400 | 1.3/1.3/4.7     | 795 | 1.3/10.9/39.4
>   300 | 1.2/1.2/2.0     | 795 | 1.2/11.6/26.4
>   200 | 1.0/1.1/6.9     | 840 | 1.1/8.6/23.2
>   100 | 0.9/0.9/4.2     | 790 | 0.9/12.0/31.8
>     2 |                 | 815 | 0.7/7.8/19.8

Thanks for sharing this.  I was somewhat concerned about having 60 ipf
input rules where having on performance.  I guess I needn't have
worried.

> Please do not interpret this email as an attack or a complaint against
> IPFILTER or any of the operating systems that use it. I understand that my

Heck no.  This sounds like a confirmation that for simple filtering
IPF has almost no effect.  From the data it looks like ipf adds
roughly 0.1 - 0.2 ms per 100 rules.  Thats well below anything I'm
worried about.

-wolfgang
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