On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 08:45:49AM -0400, James Carlson wrote: > Kacheong Poon writes: > > James Carlson wrote: > > > Yep. You could call it IP_PKTINFO. ;-} > > > > Just wondering, are those apps requiring this kind > > of usage performance sensitive?
I can't speak to every app, just mine. I think Jim nails it... > I'd be rather surprised if applications needing this sort of feature > are significantly affected by anything related to ancillary data > (compared both to the other work they typically do, and compared to > the overhead issues of having to deal with very large numbers of > peers), but the definitive test would be to create an experimental > new interface for this and then measure to see if there is any > noticable overall improvement. ... I'm talking about an IKE daemon, where most of its time (if it's spending time) is doing expensive Diffie-Hellman and/or RSA operations. Thanks, Dan _______________________________________________ networking-discuss mailing list [email protected]
