A Fast, Smart Packet Classification Algorithm Based on Decomposition

Table 1

A three-rule classifier.

No.	P (64 bits)		Port (32 bits)		Protocol (8 bits)
	Source (32 bits)	Destination (32 bits)	Source (16 bits)	Destination (16 bits)
1	0.0.0.0/0	0.0.0.0.0/0	0 : 1024	18 : 21	0/ff
2	192.168.8.0/24	192.168.8.6/32	0 : 65535	20 : 30	17/ff
3	212.83.4.0/16	212.83.4.0/24	0 : 65535	21 : 21	0/0