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From: "Jan Kiszka" <jan.kiszka@googlemail.com>
Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2006 12:00:53 +0200

> Sorry that you had to remind of the different primary goals. I think
> we may look for something pluggable to support both large-scale rule
> tables as well as small ones for embedded RT-systems.

Even for such objectives, very specific understanding exists
in the algorithmic community for what is known to work best
for various kinds of packet classification.