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From: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
To: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
Cc: thomasz@hostmaster.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: netfilter IPv6 support
Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2004 14:06:37 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040826140637.336c4d10.davem@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <412E4740.3090807@pobox.com>

On Thu, 26 Aug 2004 16:25:36 -0400
Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com> wrote:

> As Andi puts it, there is no infinite hash.

Using hash tables would be the problem :-)

Longest matching prefix lookup algorithms are a well researched area.
One we have not taken advantage of much at all.  This is more than
evident in our routing and netfilter code and I'm working to do
something about it. :-)

  reply	other threads:[~2004-08-26 21:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-08-26 18:52 netfilter IPv6 support Thomas Zehetbauer
2004-08-26 20:00 ` David S. Miller
2004-08-26 21:25   ` Thomas Zehetbauer
2004-08-26 22:05     ` Willy Tarreau
2004-08-27 10:02       ` Thomas Zehetbauer
2004-08-26 20:25 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-08-26 21:06   ` David S. Miller [this message]
2004-08-26 21:11     ` Jeff Garzik
2004-08-27 10:02       ` Thomas Zehetbauer

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