[tproxy] tproxy performance issues on different 2.6 kernels

[Jan Engelhardt]

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>It seems that i have some performance problems:
>- On kernel 2.6.15 , even without the TPROXY patches i get lousy performance , it seems that this is a well known bug with E1000 drivers , so i can't use this kernel
>- On kernel 2.6.10 + tproxy 2.0.1 , i got nice results without the tproxy patch, but when i added the tproxy - i got lousy  performance
>- On kernel 2.6.14.7 + tproxy 2.0.3 , i got great results without the tproxy patch (4500 trans/sec) , but when i added the tproxy - it was 3 times slower (1500 trans/sec) with many "failed to create a socket" errors

Try these
https://lists.balabit.hu/pipermail/tproxy/2006-July/000273.html


>     CONFIG_NETFILTER=y
>     CONFIG_IP_NF_CONNTRACK=y
>     CONFIG_IP_NF_TPROXY=y
>     CONFIG_IP_NF_IPTABLES=y
>     CONFIG_IP_NF_NAT=y
>     CONFIG_IP_NF_NAT_NEEDED=y
>
>     do i need all these settings to get the "foreign-connect" or can i 
>skip some and gain better results ?

You can try enabling/disabling "NAT reservations".



Jan Engelhardt
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