netdev - Re: RFC: Established connections hash function

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Message-ID: <p73lkhi6aj7.fsf@bingen.suse.de>
Date:	27 Mar 2007 16:11:56 +0200
From:	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>
To:	nikb@...master.com
Cc:	<netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: RFC: Established connections hash function

"Nikolaos D. Bougalis" <nikb@...master.com> writes:
> 
>     I will be more than happy to provide a patch for this, but I figured I
> would solicit some input first.

To truly defend against this you would likely need a cryptographic
hash, which would be likely too slow. 

If it's a real problem the better fix would be to switch to some
kind of balanced tree (like Evgeniy is proposing) . 

But I think it can be mostly ignored. 

-Andi
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