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tls
Wed Jul 15 23:45:09 PDT 1998
Update of /cvsroot/src/sys/netinet
In directory nb00:/tmp/cvs-serv10553

Modified Files:
        in_var.h 
Log Message:
Put original hash function back.  It wastes a little bit of space, but is much 
more even -- think of the case of a web service provider, some of whose 
customers end up getting 'inferior service' because they're on addresses that 
happen to be out at the end of a hash chain.  With webservers with thousands of 
addresses, this is a real issue.  If the wasted space is a big deal, we could 
pick a prime number that's slightly _less_ than a power of two...



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