Subject: Re: linear search of TCP control blocks on demultiplexing of an incom ing IP datagram

From: David Borman <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2002 13:42:00 -0500 (CDT)

> From: "Vishnepolsky, Oleg" <[email-masked]>
> Subject: linear search of TCP control blocks on demultiplexing of an incom
> 	ing IP datagram
> Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2002 14:06:10 -0400
>
> Which TCP implementations do a hash lookup ? I know that most BSD
> derivatives do a linear search, except for the freebsd stack which does a
> hash. What about MS stacks ? My stacks (OS/2, FlexOS) being BSD derivatives
...

BSD/OS has done hashed pcb lookups for over 6 years now (since BSD/OS 3.0).

		-David Borman