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From: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
To: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: Harald Welte <laforge@gnumonks.org>,
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Subject: Re: ip_conntrack_hash() problem 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 04 Sep 2002 15:26:26 +0200."
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In message <20020904152626.A11438@wotan.suse.de> you write:
> > I think the hash function should be fixed, not the possible choice of
> > hash sizes, if that is at feasible.
> I also agree with Martin that it is better to fix the hash function in
> this case. Restricting to magic hash table sizes looks like a bad hack.

This work is already done:
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/rusty/patches/Netfilter/conntrack_hashing.patch.gz

Rusty.
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  Anyone who quotes me in their sig is an idiot. -- Rusty Russell.
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