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
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