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[tor-bugs] #17950 [Tor]: Make address family search more efficient
#17950: Make address family search more efficient
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Reporter: teor | Owner:
Type: enhancement | Status: new
Priority: Medium | Milestone: Tor: 0.2.???
Component: Tor | Version:
Severity: Normal | Keywords: lorax easy
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Tor searches local interfaces for IPv4/IPv6 addresses, but it often
retrieves all addresses, then filters for IPv4/IPv6.
We could make this more efficient for some of the interface address
functions:
* getifaddrs doesn't take an address family, but we can check the address
families of the returned addresses
* ioctl(.,SIOCGIFCONF,.) only supports AF_INET6 on AIX, or on HP-UX and
Solaris with SIOCGLIFCONF, and otherwise only returns IPv4 addresses
* GetAdaptersAddresses (Win32) takes an address family as its first
argument
* tor_getsockname/get_interface_address6_via_udp_socket_hack takes an
address family as its first argument
A design for this could be:
* pass the address family to get_interface_addresses_raw
* pass the address family to the API-specific functions that take an
address family, or when converting the address to a smartlist,
include/exclude addresses matching the specified address families
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Ticket URL: <https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/17950>
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