Re: [ANNOUNCE] ipset 6.11 released

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ipset is a tool to build up so called sets inside the Linux kernel.
I think I know what ipset is, thank you.

The sets have any use in the kernel side only and there the kernel matches single IP addresses and never whole networks.
OK, I don't have intimate knowledge of the ipset code and its internal workings, but it obviously accepts IP ranges since if I have a hash:net set containing 10.1.0.0/16 for example and then test for that exact IP range (10.1.0.0/16) then the test returns true, so ipset obviously processes this IP range and returns a good result. How is that done if the kernel "matches single IP addresses and never whole networks" then?

One other thing: *if* ipset can only accept single IP addresses instead of IP ranges (I don't believe this to be the case, but anyway, if it does), then you could process a single IP address in a loop containing the whole range to be tested (10.1.12.0/24 in my example - i.e. looping from 10.1.12.0 until 10.1.12.255 inclusive) and bail out as soon as there is no match, which would then return 'false' (i.e. no match). You could even speed things up a bit by implementing batch processing of IP ranges internally (via a single kernel APIs instead of looping via ipset and calling the kernel API each time for a single IP address check).

I know this implementation is a bit crude, but since this testing takes place in userspace then this delay won't matter *that* much. How doable is that?

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