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Date:      Fri, 7 Jan 2000 19:13:00 +0100 (CET)
From:      Luigi Rizzo <luigi@info.iet.unipi.it>
To:        Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>
Cc:        Patrick Bihan-Faou <patrick@mindstep.com>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: ipfw optimizations
Message-ID:  <200001071813.TAA05606@info.iet.unipi.it>
In-Reply-To: <6724.947268571@critter.freebsd.dk> from Poul-Henning Kamp at "Jan 7, 2000 07:09:31 pm"

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> I still think we should split the current "one huge list of rules"
> into several lists:

> 	Two lists per interface:
> 		one list of rules for inbound packets
> 		one list of rules for outbound packets
> 
> 	Two lists for the IP stack:
> 		one list of rules for incoming packets
> 		one list of rules for outgoing packets
> 
> 	One list for forwarding of packets.

aren't these three classes combined in some H-shaped way ?

	cheers
	luigi

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