Hi... Here's a minor variation of the MAC matching target, mac_mask which lets you specify a "netmask" to apply when matching a MAC address. This could be useful for several reasons, eg. you want to match based on NIC manufacturer. In our case, we want to match a large (say 10000 or so) list of MAC addresses for the purpose of access control and want to avoid a linear scan through the list for every packet (you can split the list into buckets based on the low order bits of the MAC address, or build a binary tree structure of rules).
Tarball: http://www.trinity.unimelb.edu.au/~phawkins/mac_mask.tar.gz I'm not subscribed to this list, so please cc replies to me directly. =) Peter Hawkins [EMAIL PROTECTED]
