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Date:      Tue, 1 Jul 2008 03:10:51 +0200 (CEST)
From:      Ingo Flaschberger <if@xip.at>
To:        "Wilkinson, Alex" <alex.wilkinson@dsto.defence.gov.au>
Cc:        freebsd-net@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Freebsd IP Forwarding  performance (question, and some info) [7-stable, current, em, smp]
Message-ID:  <alpine.LFD.1.10.0807010308320.19444@filebunker.xip.at>
In-Reply-To: <20080701010716.GF3898@stlux503.dsto.defence.gov.au>
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Dear Alex,

>    >if possible, a ned header is created at the other network-cards-buffer
>    >and the ip-data is copied from network-card-buffer to network-card-buffer
>    >directly.
>
> So how does one enable "ip fast forwarding" on FreeBSD ?

sysctl -w net.inet.ip.fastforwarding=1

usually interface polling is also chosen to prevent "lock-ups".
man polling

kind regards,
 	Ingo Flaschberger




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