Date: Fri, 24 May 2002 09:09:35 -0400 From: "Yuri Victorovich" <yvictorovich@optima-hyper.com> To: "Rocco Lucia" <rlucia@iscanet.com>, <freebsd-net@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: ng_fwdswitch netgraph node Message-ID: <007501c20324$40ca4920$6c00a8c0@OPTIMA.HQ> References: <57047D2A-6ECD-11D6-A953-000393B296CE@iscanet.com>
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And why make it one-directional only? It shouldn't improve performance. So it's rather an "IP router" than "fwdswitch". many2many IP routing node would be useful in many situations. Yuri > The fwdswitch node, could be imagined as a 'many2many' node but > monodirectional only: packets flow from 'in' hooks to 'out' hooks > only. The decision about which 'out' hook to choose to forward a > packet is taken going through a forwarding table that associates > an IPaddress/netmask to an output hook index. Packets that are not > matched or frames that are not IP packets will be forwarded to the > 'default' hook. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message
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