Pieter de Goeje wrote: > On Wednesday 14 January 2009 17:23:25 Artem Kuchin wrote: >> I need to block around 150000 ip addreses from acccess the server at all >> at any port. The addesses are random, they are not nets. >> These are the spammer i want to block for 24 hours. >> The list is dynamically generated and regenerated every hour or so. >> What is the most efficient way to do it? >> At first i thought doing ipfw rules using 5 ips per rule, that would >> result in 30000 rules! This will be too slow! >> I need to something really quick and smart. Like matching the first >> number from ip (195 from 192.1.2.3), >> if it does not match - skip, if it does - compare the next one >> and so on. > > Quoting ipfw(8): > LOOKUP TABLES > Lookup tables are useful to handle large sparse address sets, typically > from a hundred to several thousands of entries. There may be up to 128 > different lookup tables, numbered 0 to 127. > > net.inet.ip.fw.dyn_buckets should probably also be increased to efficiently > handle 150k IPs.
Please correct me if I'm wrong, but if the OP is going to drop all traffic immediately from the 150k IPs, then dyn_buckets shouldn't come into play, as there is no dynamic rule generated. Steve _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
