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Date:      Sun, 23 Mar 2014 17:14:31 -0700
From:      Michael Sierchio <kudzu@tenebras.com>
To:        "freebsd-ipfw@freebsd.org" <ipfw@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: ipfw dynamic rules
Message-ID:  <CAHu1Y72ZF3-Tk5Nf_yJ7QgsGMzs0MFz%2Byi2SzNAj1tLYwbD4jA@mail.gmail.com>
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On Sun, Mar 23, 2014 at 4:31 PM, Julian Elischer <julian@freebsd.org> wrote:

> but disabled rules still have a cost I believe as hey still need to be
> traversed,
> unless someone has been very smart..

This I did not know. I don't have many, but it's a small
disappointment, if true.

> It's a pitty that you need to do policy based routing only on input,
> as output packets are already past their routing decision.
> The 'fwd' rule can however sometimes be used later.

Agreed.



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