Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2005 10:02:34 +0200 From: "Chris Dionissopoulos" <dionch@freemail.gr> To: "Luigi Rizzo" <rizzo@icir.org> Cc: freebsd-ipfw@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Sticky pf(4)-like feature in ipfw? Message-ID: <003201c50f46$e23049f0$3c00000a@R3B> References: <000a01c50df5$4a4435e0$3c00000a@R3B> <20050208150150.C28282@xorpc.icir.org>
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Thanks for your help. "Sticky" was more a wordplay than an technical description , just more people to understand at first reading what i want to do. Chris. > the 'state only based on the 3-tuple' as you describe it > is certainly an interesting feature. It is slightly more expensive > to implement than what i thought at first, because you should > do two hash computations and lookups (one on the 5-tuple, one > on the 3-tuple) on each packet trying to match a dynamic rule. > > i just wonder why it is named 'sticky' in pf > which is not really very indicative of what the function does. > > cheers > luigi ____________________________________________________________________ http://www.freemail.gr - δωρεάν υπηρεσία ηλεκτρονικού ταχυδρομείου. http://www.freemail.gr - free email service for the Greek-speaking.
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