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I've been working on a script with pf for a while and so far it is half way working. It handles smaller lists of ips I add to tables fine. However, anything larger I get the following error:

Code:

/etc/pf.conf:45: cannot define table table_name: Cannot allocate memory

I looked through some documentation on pf and found that by default it doesn't allow tables to have more than 200,000 entries. I found the lists I had this size and split into lists of 100,000. Then I tried 50,000 and 25,000 but I kept getting this error.

I also tried increasing my limits in pf:

Code:

# pfctl -sa | tail -n 5
LIMITS:
states        hard limit    20000
src-nodes     hard limit    20000
frags         hard limit    10000
table-entries hard limit 60000000

Any suggestions much appreciated.

---------- Post updated 11-22-14 at 07:56 AM ---------- Previous update was 11-21-14 at 12:56 PM ----------

Turns out after a LOT of trial and error this was just due to a syntax error in one of my table files that "pfctl -nf" was not picking up. I commented out that line and it now runs perfect.

Mods: You can go ahead and mark this one solved.

You could do that yourself too, but, done. Glad you figured it out. For the record, we wouldn't have been able to tell that without you posting your scripts.