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Date:      Mon, 19 May 2008 12:13:20 -0400
From:      Vivek Khera <vivek@khera.org>
To:        Ian Smith <smithi@nimnet.asn.au>
Cc:        freebsd-ipfw@freebsd.org, FreeBSD Stable <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: how much memory does increasing max rules for IPFW take up?
Message-ID:  <43327C1A-AF98-4076-AAE4-3A59F6FC074E@khera.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.1080518154815.1845A-100000@gaia.nimnet.asn.au>
References:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.1080518154815.1845A-100000@gaia.nimnet.asn.au>

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On May 18, 2008, at 3:26 AM, Ian Smith wrote:

> Hashed per flow, (srcip^destip^srcport^dstport) mod  
> curr_dyn_buckets, so
> packets for both directions of a given flow hash to the same  
> bucket.  In
> the case you mention, you could likely expect reasonable  
> distribution by
> src_ip/src_port.

Thanks for the detailed info.  This really helps.




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