Wes Peters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> The description there isn't very forthcoming.  fastforwarding caches
> the results of a route lookup for destination addresses that are not
> on the local machine, and uses the cached route to short-circuit the
> normal (relatively slow) route lookup process.  The packet flows 
> directly from one layer2 input routine directly to the opposing 
> layer2 output routine without traversing the IP layer.

And more importantly, without traversing ipfw or ipfilter.  In other
words, don't use this on a firewall.

DES
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