Hashed jump, or other dynamic jump operations in general

[Henrik Nordstrom]

On Tuesday 19 March 2002 18:47, Paul P Komkoff Jr wrote:

> Have you seen hashed jump in routing code ? packet classifier, etc.
> Unfortunately I've not got it here but you can look at lartc on the
> net and find an example there.

Yes, but what I am interested in at this moment is to how to utilize 
similar techniques for optimizing large iptables rulesets. My routing 
tables rarely contain more than a handful of rules even in the most 
complex environments..

The tc code is quite different from the iptables code.

The actual act of the method of selecting which chain to jump to is 
not a big deal, the question is more of how to make iptables make the 
actual jump in the best manner, and how to build the argument list to 
the jump target in a manner that makes sense to the userspace 
iptables program..

Regards
Henrik Nordström