Re: How many IP addresses can a variable hold?

[Matt Kettler <mkettler () evi-inc com>]

There are severe, and exponentiating penalties for increasing numbers of 
comma delimited entries in a IP address specifier.

However, there are no penalties for use of masks. So it's not a function of 
the number if IP's, but the number of range specifiers.

Last I heard more than 4 was considered "bad" for performance.



At 02:32 PM 1/24/2003 -0800, spy guy wrote:
> In snort.conf, how many IP addresses can a variable hold?
> Will there be a performance impact if I have too many? (as in over 100)



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