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Date:      Tue, 13 Feb 2001 10:07:37 -0800 (PST)
From:      Luigi Rizzo <rizzo@aciri.org>
To:        imp@harmony.village.org (Warner Losh)
Cc:        phk@critter.freebsd.dk, rizzo@aciri.org, 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:  <200102131807.f1DI7g831251@iguana.aciri.org>
In-Reply-To: <200102131755.f1DHtQW39918@harmony.village.org> from Warner Losh at "Feb 13, 2001 10:55:26 am"

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> In message <52435.982085938@critter> Poul-Henning Kamp writes:
> : A forwarded packet would encounter three lists of rules:
> : 
> : 	Input list on arrival interface
> : 	forwarding list
> : 	Output list on departure interface
> 
> That would make my life easier here.  Right now I have a shell script
> with nested for loops to prevent bogus packets coming in (and no
> filtering at all going out).  When there's 8 interfaces, it gets ugly
> fast.

What you would actually need is a rule (which to the best
of my knowledge does not exist now) that lets you check
whether or not the packet has any receive interface
associated with it (hence it is a forwarded packet).

I think this would simplify your processing a lot.

	cheers
	luigi
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