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Retra on Feb 15, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: 65535 interfaces ought to be enough for anybody

Strings are only a problem because they are being treated as text. In this case, they would simply be treated as binary identifiers, so there is no problem. The raw bytes would do just as well for this kind of thing.

jval43 on Feb 15, 2017 [–]

Only if they are fixed length. If you used variable length strings in packet headers things would get complicated.

But if you're fine with fixed-length strings, you could just as well use all those bits to represent a number instead.

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