On 13 May 2003 12:20:58 -0400
Mark Gray
Togan Muftuoglu
writes: * Mark Gray;
on 13 May, 2003 wrote: Write your own firewall script (if you take a look at the ouput of "iptables -L" while running SuSEfirewall you will get a good idea why it is running slow -- the iptables it sets up for even the simplest system is rather baroque :-)
out curiosity what makes you think it is baroque
(I am not really calling SuSE on the carpet for this -- I long ago decided it was too inflexible and far too complex for my simple needs and wrote my own script and kept my mouth shut until today. (You can blame excessive coffee (even for me) for my sudden outburst:-) Take a look at the output of 'iptables -L -v' for yourself it you are using SuSEfirewall, and compare it with the functionality you wanted when you answered all those questions, and trace a packet through that chain of rules to get an idea of what might be slowing down the original posters server.)
heh,heh.... well since you admitted it...., I will confess too. I'm using the firewall2 script which came from 7.3 for my 8.1 setup. It just worked better. :-) -- use Perl; #powerful programmable prestidigitation