Fire Wall Rule Table Analysis

 Notations:

         1. F1 ~ F5: 5-tuple fields in packet header

                   F1. Source IP   

                   F2. Destination IP

                   F3. Source port  

                   F4. Destination port

                   F5. Protocol value

         2. P: Prefix

         3. R: Range

         4. S: Protocol value

         5. *: Don’t care term

The purpose of the table: Calculating the number of distinct filed values

FW
# of distinct filed value
Table Size
Summary
F1(P)
789
1731
2625
4312
6939
8733
79-87%
F2(P)
314
649
925
1590
2556
3081
30-32%
F3(R)
9
9
9
9
9
9
9
F4(R)
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
F5(S)
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
# of *
F1(P)
108
202
266
504
776
978
8.8-11%
F2(P)
477
964
1482
2444
3925
4959
47-50%
F3(R)
369
755
1072
1792
2793
3497
35-37%
F4(R)
1000
2000
3000
5000
8000
10000
100%
F5(S)
253
512
744
1270
1969
2506
25%