netfilter/ipchains and massive web traffic

Nate Campi nate@campin.net
Fri, 5 Oct 2001 06:55:00 -0700


On Fri, Oct 05, 2001 at 10:05:39AM +0200, Patrick Schaaf wrote:
> 
> 	- do you have good load distribution, so each server will see
> 	  about the same share?

We use load balancers that hold up under the load of Tripod and
Angelfire so they should hold up for this.

> 
> > Our current Linux build includes ipchains, but I don't know what it
> > saves to go without it.
> 
> Measure it. Any experience of other people will be less useful.

I've known all along that I'll have no choice but to measure this on my 
own, but I also like to see what others have found and compare my results
to theirs.

Thanks.
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