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Date:      Thu, 01 Feb 1996 22:07:57 +0100
From:      Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.tfs.com>
To:        Nate Williams <nate@sri.MT.net>
Cc:        michael butler <imb@scgt.oz.au>, current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: ip_fw ordering of rules.. 
Message-ID:  <993.823208877@critter.tfs.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 01 Feb 1996 11:30:40 MST." <199602011830.LAA20539@rocky.sri.MT.net> 

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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.

I will make it an option.

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