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Date:      Thu, 1 Feb 1996 14:57:18 -0700
From:      Nate Williams <nate@sri.MT.net>
To:        Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.tfs.com>
Cc:        Nate Williams <nate@sri.MT.net>, michael butler <imb@scgt.oz.au>, current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: ip_fw ordering of rules.. 
Message-ID:  <199602012157.OAA21193@rocky.sri.MT.net>
In-Reply-To: <993.823208877@critter.tfs.com>
References:  <199602011830.LAA20539@rocky.sri.MT.net> <993.823208877@critter.tfs.com>

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> > > > It is always a singled linked list anyway...
> > >  
> > > Ugh ! Then there'll be no disadvantage in removing the "sort" :-)
> > 
> > Except that supposedly it 'orders' things so that the most common rules
> > (or what it thinks should be most common) will be found at the top, thus
> > making it faster since you don't have to walk the entire tree.
> 
> Well, I suggest you look at the ordering then, that is most
> certainly >NOT< what the code does.

That's what it's supposed to do.  I guess it depends on what you think
should be the most 'common' rules. :)

> I will make it an option.

Thanks!


Nate



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