Subject: Re: NetBSD master CVS tree commits
To: None <matt@NetBSD.ORG>
From: None <darrenr@reed.wattle.id.au>
List: source-changes
Date: 04/30/1998 08:37:23
In some email I received from The Source of All Evil, sie wrote:
>
>
> matt
> Wed Apr 29 14:37:53 PDT 1998
> Update of /cvsroot/src/sys/conf
> In directory nb00:/tmp/cvs-serv16194/conf
>
> Modified Files:
> files
> Log Message:
> Add support for "fast" forwarding. Add hooks in if_ethersubr.c and
> if_fddisubr.c to fastpath IP forwarding. If ip_forward successfully
> forwards a packet, it will create a cache (ipflow) entry. ether_input
> and fddi_input will first call ipflow_fastforward with the received
> packet and if the packet passes enough tests, it will be forwarded (the
> ttl is decremented and the cksum is adjusted incrementally).
does ipflow_fastforward call the pfil(9) hooks, amongst the many tests ?
Darren