Hi,
On Thu, Mar 28, 2002 at 09:00:18PM +0200, Hank Nussbacher wrote:
> >If you want to see source code, look into the Linux or BSD kernel
> >networking code. The basic stuff ("lookup of IP routes and masks")
> >has to follow the same rules everywhere.
>
> Not always. Read "Routing with a Clue":
> http://www.acm.org/sigcomm/sigcomm99/papers/session6-1.html
Basically that's just an optimization. The netmask/base address match has
to be done anyway, you can just save a few lookups. Interesting idea,
though.
Nevetherless I doubt whether this would be faster than a no-special-cases-
no-caching optimized-data-structure thing like CEF (or whatever the
competition is doing to that effect).
gert
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