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Re: ip aliasing support ...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alan Cox)
Mon Oct 23 15:46:47 1995
From: Alan Cox <alan@cymru.net>
To: srb@cuci.nl (Stephen R. van den Berg)
Date: Mon, 23 Oct 1995 10:39:55 +0100 (BST)
Cc: linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu
In-Reply-To: <199510201911.UAA00237@hera.cuci.nl> from "Stephen R. van den Berg" at Oct 20, 95 08:11:44 pm
> being done for *every* packet that goes through the machine. If the table
> starts approaching sizes like 7MB, then it had better be an array so that
> binary searches are swift and painless (and so that it doesn't occupy more
> memory due to pointers and such, which would likely increase the table
> size by a significant amount).
if its gets that big its a problem. I was going to linear search it on the
grounds its normally 16 items or less.
Alan
