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From: Vincent Jardin <vjardin@free.fr>
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> +> This said, how do you plan to handle the alias search, by
> +> implementing a per-interface hash table containing the
> +> addresses and broadcast addresses ?
>
> First I want to find all places that need fast processing and it probably
> needs hash tables for IPs and broadcasts, but I'm not sure if that's all.

Why not a lookup using Patricia ? It is very efficient, moreover it is alre=
ady=20
provided by net/radix.c

Regards,
  Vincent