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Net Cache - Milestone #2
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Hmm, a general purpose net cache.
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Types of Cache
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What are we likely to need a fast cache for? Look below.
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- ipv4 address to ethernet MAC address (ARP)
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- MAC address to IPv4 (RARP)
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- list of IPv6 neighbours/routers/prefix's
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There remain problems in that for many of these needs additional
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information is required, this information being specific to the
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use at the time.
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However, all these uses require an ability to quickly find information
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given a key that is a number of variable length, hence the conceptual
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idea of using a hash lookup.
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