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Date:      Tue, 13 Feb 2001 18:38:58 +0100
From:      Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>
To:        Luigi Rizzo <rizzo@aciri.org>
Cc:        cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/netinet ip_fw.c ip_fw.h src/sbin/ipfw ipfw.8 ipfw.c 
Message-ID:  <52435.982085938@critter>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 13 Feb 2001 09:25:10 PST." <200102131725.f1DHPKO31020@iguana.aciri.org> 

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In message <200102131725.f1DHPKO31020@iguana.aciri.org>, Luigi Rizzo writes:
>> >  The check is semi expensive (traverses the interface address list)
>
>any input packet needs to traverse the interface address list. If there is
>an efficiency problem there, the fix is to use a hash table to lookup
>local addresses.
>
>BTW can you explain me the logic in INADDR_TO_IFP ? I
>am not sure i understand why IFF_POINTOPOINT is considered
>differently here and not in ip_input().
>
>> It would be more elegant to have multiple lists of ipfw rules:
>>         One input list per interface
>>         One output list per interface
>>         One list for packets being forwarded
>>         One list for packets arriving locally
>>         One list for packets originating locally
>
>what would you apply to 'forwarded' packets ? Just the
>'forward' list (very hard to do in practice, as you might
>have to backtrack, think of divert sockets) or the set
><input,forward,output> ?

A forwarded packet would encounter three lists of rules:

	Input list on arrival interface
	forwarding list
	Output list on departure interface

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