From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Friedrich Lobenstock Subject: Re: question regarding iptables tuning (was Re: iptables denial of services) Date: Sat, 17 Apr 2004 22:41:35 +0200 Sender: netfilter-devel-admin@lists.netfilter.org Message-ID: <4081967F.8040005@fl.priv.at> References: <408167F2.9060501@fl.priv.at> <408180C7.6080302@eurodev.net> <40818C75.8010609@fl.priv.at> <4081911D.1070307@fl.priv.at> <1082234028.13261.375.camel@tux.rsn.bth.se> Reply-To: Netfilter Development Mailinglist Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: To: Netfilter Development Mailinglist In-Reply-To: <1082234028.13261.375.camel@tux.rsn.bth.se> Errors-To: netfilter-devel-admin@lists.netfilter.org List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Id: netfilter-devel.vger.kernel.org Martin Josefsson wrote on 17.04.2004 22:33 MET: > On Sat, 2004-04-17 at 22:18, Friedrich Lobenstock wrote: > >>As the hash algorithm needs the hash size to be prime, here a link to find >>a fitting one http://www.prime-numbers.org/ which should be linked right >>after the above mentioned link. > > The new hashfunction (jenkins) doesn't need that (2.4 and 2.6 has it). > It's very happy with 2^n sizes, in fact it's happy with all sizes :) Since which official kernel 2.4 release do we have the new hash? If it is just 2.4.24 or up then you should still need to mention this fact about the prime number. See the one guy posting about kernel 2.4.20. PS: Please respect the "Reply-to". Thanks! -- MfG / Regards Friedrich Lobenstock