netdev - Re: [PATCH 3/3] bridge: simpler hash with salt

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Message-Id: <20070327.191756.78707233.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Tue, 27 Mar 2007 19:17:56 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	shemminger@...ux-foundation.org
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] bridge: simpler hash with salt

From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...ux-foundation.org>
Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2007 14:17:09 -0700

> Instead of hashing the whole Ethernet address, it should be faster
> to just use the last 4 bytes. Add a random salt value to the hash
> to make it more difficult to construct worst case DoS hash chains.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...ux-foundation.org>

Applied to net-2.6.22
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