netfilter 0.1.9 much better....

Paul Rusty Russell Paul.Russell@rustcorp.com.au
Thu, 30 Sep 1999 11:42:33 +0930


In message <37F243F6.241F04B7@xnet.com> you write:
> The netfilter-0.1.9 code does MUCH better with PPP connections than the
> previous code did.  Performance seems to be on par with the ipchains
> code.  Bad news is that there are still problems with SMP (Rusty didn't
> lie... :) )

I hate it when I'm right.

> I am still attempting to track it down, it went out to
> lunch over night sometime after the PPP line was killed. (Screen blanked
> then system died.... Locked solid and couldn't get it back so needed to
> reset.  Any hints to look at?

Uncomment -DDEBUG_CONNTRACK in the Makefile, and see if anything shows
up in the logs.  A likely candidate is downing the PPP interface...

Rusty.
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