Re: Select chain from set?

[Susan Hinrichs <shinrich@thought-mesh.net>]

I also agree that a runtime structure to track traffic attributes and
match them to targets would be great.  I created my own match-tree table
generator to achieve a similar effect.  It works, but updating large
static structures can be rather time consuming and fragile.

I have a question about the '-g' terminology used by Casper and Oscar.
Is this a new piece of functionality?  Or are you talking about the
--goto option?

Susan

> > This all begs the question on how effective some tree structure with -g
> > is implemented, to figure out how much of a performance benefit such a
> > new target would have over a treelike chain structure.  
> 
> If we compare many linear -g with just one function gettarget(ip) the
> different is many/one. Tree-like -g structure would save most
> comparitions, but is hard to write for every task. Function-like target
> is real fast and fully automatic, the only disadvantage is in fact it
> doesn't exist :)
>