ipfw performance and random musings.

Sten Daniel Sørsdal lists at wm-access.no
Thu Sep 14 04:00:12 PDT 2006


Luigi Rizzo wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 25, 2006 at 03:27:17PM +0200, Ian FREISLICH wrote:
>> Luigi Rizzo wrote:
>>> i am basically ok with this except, as i said, that there is
>>> no point in replicating the interface name i.e. why re0-re5
>>> instead of just re0-5 ? you just open up to possible mistakes
>>> and the need for extra code to check what happens when the user
>>> types re2-de5 (by mistake or intentionally).
>> Ok, it's just syntactic sugar anyway which doesn't really affect
>> implimentation anyway.
>>
>> So, to recap.  You will be fine with although I'm now leaning toward
>> "factor" in stead of "delta" but that will be a trivial change and
>> I'd like to change "@" to "indirect".
>>
>> skipto @ via vlan2-264 base 100 delta 100
>>
>> or as I'd prefer
>>
>> skipto indirect via vlan2-264 base 100 factor 100
> 
> either way is fine with me.
> 

How about;

skipto 1000:1000 via vlan2-264

??


-- 
Sten Daniel Sørsdal



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