IPFW MAX RULES COUNT PERFORMANCE

[Steve Bertrand]

Daniel Dias Gonçalves wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> My system is a FreeBSD 7.1R.
> When I add rules IPFW COUNT to 254 IPS from my network, one of my
> interfaces increases the latency, causing large delays in the network,
> when I delete COUNT rules, everything returns to normal, which can be ?

How much latency? Can you provide examples of a with and without the
count rules? What type of hardware are you testing this on?

Steve