[1719] in linux-net channel archive
Re: Linux router
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Stephen R. van den Berg)
Sun Jan 28 05:16:08 1996
From: srb@cuci.nl (Stephen R. van den Berg)
Date: Sat, 27 Jan 1996 13:17:04 +0100
In-Reply-To: Alan Cox's message as of 1996 Jan 26 Fri 11:52.
<199601261152.LAA06003@snowcrash.cymru.net>
To: Alan Cox <alan@cymru.net>
Cc: submit-linux-dev-net@ratatosk.yggdrasil.com
Alan Cox <alan@cymru.net> wrote:
>> 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
Not because you're doing string comparisons, I presume (because that can
be avoided)?
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Sincerely, srb@cuci.nl
Stephen R. van den Berg (AKA BuGless).
The eleventh commandment: Thou shalt not re-curse!
