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Date:      Fri, 15 Dec 2006 12:23:39 -0800
From:      Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>
To:        bu7cher@yandex.ru
Cc:        freebsd-net@freebsd.org, freebsd-arch@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Runtime control for the IPFIREWALL_FORWARD
Message-ID:  <4583044B.4000006@elischer.org>
In-Reply-To: <4582F021.000015.13046@webmail9.yandex.ru>
References:  <4582F021.000015.13046@webmail9.yandex.ru>

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Andrey V. Elsukov wrote:
> Hi, All!
> 
> I want get the IPFIREWALL_FORWARD feature without a kernel rebuild.
> And use forwarding with the ipfw kld. It's possible to have this 
> functional in the base system?  If yes, then which is preferred way: 
> sysctl or kld?
> 

This introduces quite a bit of extra code into the path of IP packets.
Some people are very sensitive about anything that slows down that path.




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