mikrotik slow with many rules

terenceagius · Mon Mar 13, 2006 11:01 am

I use mikrotik quite exhaustively for quite some years now - at least 50 installs. But I have recently noticed performance issues with 2.9.5 when having many firewall rules

I use about 100 mixed forward/input rules for wireless, lan and VPN access

rules below a certain treshhold slow down traffic as to become unusable - and this using a fairly powerful machine 1.7ghz / 256MB

is this ust my problem or a known fact ?
How do I fix this problem ?

cheers

Terence

Mon Mar 13, 2006 11:45 am

100 rules??? There must be no problems with 100 rules? There are something wrong with your configuration!

Eugene · Tue Mar 14, 2006 3:46 pm

Well, according to my experience, MT is really slow when you have over 20000 rules traversed sequentially (something like 5Mbps on a decent P4 2.8Ghz box)

With 100 rules you should have well over 300 Mbps.

Eugene · Tue Mar 14, 2006 3:49 pm

Well, according to my experience, MT is really slow when you have over 20000 rules traversed sequentially (something like 5Mbps on a decent P4 2.8Ghz box)

With 100 rules you should have well over 300 Mbps.

Eugene · Tue Mar 14, 2006 3:49 pm

Well, according to my experience, MT is really slow when you have over 20000 rules traversed sequentially (something like 5Mbps on a decent P4 2.8Ghz box)

With 100 rules you should have well over 300 Mbps.

Eugene · Tue Mar 14, 2006 3:49 pm

Well, according to my experience, MT is really slow when you have over 20000 rules traversed sequentially (something like 5Mbps on a decent P4 2.8Ghz box)

With 100 rules you should have well over 300 Mbps.