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Date:      Sun, 15 Jun 2014 22:01:00 +1000 (EST)
From:      Ian Smith <smithi@nimnet.asn.au>
To:        Julian Elischer <julian@freebsd.org>
Cc:        freebsd-net@freebsd.org, Michael Sierchio <kudzu@tenebras.com>
Subject:   Re: ipfw table matching algorithm question
Message-ID:  <20140615215526.U609@sola.nimnet.asn.au>
In-Reply-To: <539D70BB.70203@freebsd.org>
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On Sun, 15 Jun 2014 18:08:59 +0800, Julian Elischer wrote:
 > On 6/15/14, 3:00 AM, Alexander V. Chernikov wrote:
 > > On 14.06.2014 21:35, Michael Sierchio wrote:
 > > > Luigi -
 > > > 
 > > > Does table entry matching use a longest prefix match?
 > > I'm not Luigi, but the answer is "yes" anyway :)
 > 
 > this may be about to change, because tables are getting  a rewrite,
 > but IP-based tables use the same code that the routing tables use.

It'd be a bit anti-POLA for the longest prefix match behaviour to 
change, though, especially with some tablearg usage.  Alexander?

cheers, Ian



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