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From: Maxim Ignatenko <gelraen.ua@gmail.com>
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2009/12/9 Luigi Rizzo <rizzo@iet.unipi.it>:
> 3. a hash version of 'table's
>
> =C2=A0 Right now ipfw tables are implented as routing tables, which is
> =C2=A0 great if you have to lookup a longest matching prefix, but a
> =C2=A0 bit overkill if you care only for ports or jail ids, and
> =C2=A0 totally uninteresting if you want to lookup flow ids,
> =C2=A0 or generic sequence of bytes. My plan here is to reuse the
> =C2=A0 ipfw hash tables to make them available for 'ipfw table ...'
> =C2=A0 commands. To avoid code and syntax bloat, I'd use the number
> =C2=A0 0..TABLE_MAX-1 for the existing prefix tables, and
> =C2=A0 TABLE_MAX..2TABLE_MAX-1 for the new hash tables.
>
> comments welcome
>

I think better use another name ('htable' for example) instead of
overloading the old one.
And thanks for great ideas.