On 28 Jun 2001 16:33:33 -0400, in sentex.lists.freebsd.net you 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.
Are there any other caveats ? I seem to recall from way back something
about this (or maybe I am thinking of something else) being count
sensitive. e.g. that over x amount of routes, its not worth it to enable.
---Mike
Mike Tancsa ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Sentex Communications Corp,
Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
"Given enough time, 100 monkeys on 100 routers
could setup a national IP network." (KDW2)
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