[1226] in linux-net channel archive
Re: ip aliasing support ...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Derek Atkins)
Fri Oct 20 06:54:36 1995
Date: Wed, 18 Oct 1995 21:31:15 -0400
From: Derek Atkins <warlord@mit.edu>
To: Alan Cox <alan@cymru.net>
CC: cschle@paradigm.co.za (Craig Schlenter), jjciarla@raiz.uncu.edu.ar,
linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu
In-reply-to: "[1224] in linux-net channel archive"
> My single most fundamental objection was the linked list of addresses not an
> array (which would be much much faster).
Although an array is faster, it is static, which means you have a
fundamenal resource limit. Perhaps a hash table pointing to linked
lists? In general you will only have a single entry in each hash
bucket (which can be implemented as an array) so it will be about as
fast as a normal array -- perhaps a few extra instructions to perform
the hashing function and comparing the result. But this way you don't
limit the resources available.
-derek
