[suse-security] network performance problems with SuSEfirewall2 and multiple interfaces

[Ralf Ronneburger <ralf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi everyone,

I've a machine with 3 real and 15 virtual interfaces under SuSE 9.0 with 
SuSEfirewall2. Resulting from this I've also a lot of iptable-rules 
(iptables-save | wc -l gives me 1068 lines).

After some weeks the machine slows down network-traffic, although 
everything else seems to run quite well (low CPU-load, low 
memory-usage), so I have to reboot it (restarting SuSEfirewall2 does not 
help).

I wounder if anybody else has experienced something similar, if anything 
of that kind is known and if anybody has an idea, where the problem may lay.

Greetings,

Ralf

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