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From: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Subject: Re: ctnetlink questions
Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2003 22:00:32 +0200
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Henrik Nordstrom wrote:

>On Tue, 21 Oct 2003, Patrick McHardy wrote:
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>>Ok there's another problem, for fast lookups by id (we don't want to
>>search the entire hash) we need to encode the hash chain of a tuple 
>>in the id. We basically have two choices now for the remaining bits:
>>    
>>
>
>You can always make the userspace ID larger by including the bucket
>number. There is no need to extend the ID stored in the conntrack for
>this as it is already known.
>
>Regards
>Henrik
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>

Ok I have to admit I didn't think of this obvious solution.

Thanks again,
Patrick