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Ramin Dousti wrote:
> One can come up with a btree which should reduce the worst case lookup to a max
> of 8 lookups for a /24.

It'd be better if netfilter supported some way of either binding rules 
to an interface, or allowing a hashtable-lookup for a "jump" based on IP 
address.