netdev - Re: [PATCH] fib_semantics: prevent long hash chains in access server config

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Message-ID: <20080113175849.GC12775@kvack.org>
Date:	Sun, 13 Jan 2008 12:58:49 -0500
From:	Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@...ck.org>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fib_semantics: prevent long hash chains in access server config

On Sat, Jan 12, 2008 at 09:38:57PM -0800, David Miller wrote:
> And guess why we don't do this?  Because it's not part of
> the key.  Other aspects of the base fib_info and nexthops
> provide the uniqueness, not the devindex of the first hop.
> 
> So you'll need to find another way to do this.

Ah, you're right indeed.  It's probably easier for me to change how the 
daemon adds the local ip address for these point to point interfaces.

		-ben
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