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mikrotik slow with many rules

Posted: Mon Mar 13, 2006 11:01 am
by terenceagius
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

Posted: Mon Mar 13, 2006 11:45 am
by macgaiver
100 rules??? There must be no problems with 100 rules? There are something wrong with your configuration!

Posted: Tue Mar 14, 2006 3:46 pm
by Eugene
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) :lol:

With 100 rules you should have well over 300 Mbps.

Posted: Tue Mar 14, 2006 3:49 pm
by Eugene
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) :lol:

With 100 rules you should have well over 300 Mbps.

Posted: Tue Mar 14, 2006 3:49 pm
by Eugene
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) :lol:

With 100 rules you should have well over 300 Mbps.

Posted: Tue Mar 14, 2006 3:49 pm
by Eugene
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) :lol:

With 100 rules you should have well over 300 Mbps.