On Wed, 14 Oct 2015, Hongyi Zhao wrote: > From the ipset manpage, I can see the following depictions: > > hash:ip > The hash:ip set type uses a hash to store > IP host addresses (default) or network addresses. > > hash:net > The hash:net set type uses a hash to store different > sized IP network addresses. > > So, it seems that both types can be used to store the network addresses. > > Hence, my issues are: > > 1- Since the hash:ip can be used to store both host addresses and network > addresses, why the developer design another set type hash:net? > > 2- It's well know that any host addresses can be written into the form of > the 32-bits cidr prefix form. Since the ipset type hash:net should also > can be used to store the host addresses and network addresses. > > In one word: what's the differences between hash:ip and hash:net? hash:ip can store same size network addresses only (for example all of them are /24) while hash:net supports all kind of netblocks (except /0). Best regards, Jozsef - E-mail : kadlec@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, kadlecsik.jozsef@xxxxxxxxxxxxx PGP key : http://www.kfki.hu/~kadlec/pgp_public_key.txt Address : Wigner Research Centre for Physics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences H-1525 Budapest 114, POB. 49, Hungary -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netfilter" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
