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Date: Sun, 5 Dec 2004 01:14:49 +0300
From: Gleb Smirnoff <glebius@freebsd.org>
To: Maxim Konovalov <maxim@macomnet.ru>
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Subject: Re: kern/73129: [patch] IPFW misbehaviour in RELENG_5
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On Sun, Dec 05, 2004 at 12:53:52AM +0300, Maxim Konovalov wrote:
M> IMHO restoring the historic behaviour (even broken in some respects)
M> is the best thing we can do at the moment.

+ my vote.

Using 'ipfw fwd' on packets just being nated, is a very common and used
technique. I know several places where people are delaying move from RELENG_4 to
RELENG_5 because of this problem.

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Totus tuus, Glebius.
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