Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote:
>
> Wes Peters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > The description there isn't very forthcoming. fastforwarding caches
> > the results of a route lookup for destination addresses that are not
> > on the local machine, and uses the cached route to short-circuit the
> > normal (relatively slow) route lookup process. The packet flows
> > directly from one layer2 input routine directly to the opposing
> > layer2 output routine without traversing the IP layer.
>
> And more importantly, without traversing ipfw or ipfilter. In other
> words, don't use this on a firewall.
Excellent point, grashopper. Perhaps we should collect this verbiage
into the man page? Or, heaven forbid, stuff it into a comment in the
code somewhere?
Nah, that would be blasphemy.
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