I am writing a proxy server, an internal table will need to keep track of requests so incoming traffic can be dropped if it has not been requested and maintain connection state.
I will need to store
Originating Internal IP (unsigned long)
Destination IP (unsigned long)
Source port (uint)
Destination ports (uint)
I will need to store a lot of these in data records and will need to access them qucickly. Would it be more efficient to store them in a hash table or a struct?
Or is tere a more suitable data type?
thanks