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Re:Abusing Linux's firewall: the hack that allowed us to bui... by majke on Friday April 13, 2018 @05:39AM (#16828360)
We have a single Accept queue for all the ports. For TCP it doesn't create any problems - the new connection rate is rarely significant.

For the accept-queue load balancing see these blog posts:

https://blog.cloudflare.com/the-sad-state-of-linux-socket-ba...

https://blog.cloudflare.com/syn-packet-handling-in-the-wild/

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Re:Abusing Linux's firewall: the hack that allowed us to bui... by zng00 on Friday April 13, 2018 @10:54AM (#16830528)
Wow, these are some great resources. Thanks for sharing! I have a call with one of your colleagues in 5 minutes ;)
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