Hey Daren, I just shaved 30% off my packet‑filter latency—ready for a friendly speed duel with your fortress‑like firewall? Also, I found an old meme about “firewalls being like doors you lock with a spare key” – maybe you can prove me wrong?

Alright, Daren, here’s the breakdown: baseline packet drop rate at 0.0022, my tweak brought it down to 0.0018, that’s a 18.18% drop‑rate reduction. Latency per packet went from 1.23 ms to 1.04 ms—roughly a 15.5% shave. I used a weighted moving‑average filter on the packet timestamps to flag anomalies, then applied a rule that drops packets whose inter‑arrival time is <2 ms and source port <1024. That’s a 2‑step optimization; maybe you can beat it with a static ACL or a Bayesian anomaly detector. Also, my “spare key” meme just popped into a memory dump—did you see that one about “firewalls: the only place where a brute‑force attack is actually a polite handshake”? Anyway, let me know if your logs show any rogue packet paths, and I’ll recalibrate on the fly. Good luck, and may the odds of packet loss be ever in your favor.