[1711] in linux-net channel archive
Re: Linux router
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alan Cox)
Sat Jan 27 03:14:41 1996
From: Alan Cox <alan@cymru.net>
To: ukd1@rzstud1.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de (Bernd Eckenfels)
Date: Fri, 26 Jan 1996 11:52:16 +0000 (GMT)
Cc: submit-linux-dev-net@ratatosk.yggdrasil.com
In-Reply-To: <4e75d2$b9n@nz12.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de> from "Bernd Eckenfels" at Jan 25, 96 05:45:06 am
> Personally I still miss the possibility to name the device instead of the
> address of the device. Its a great feature of linux networking to be device
> related and not adresse related as in bsd.
Adding by name support is easy, but I by name match is 10 times slower than
a by address one
