On Mon, Oct 4, 2010 at 9:44 AM, Eduardo Meyer <dudu.me...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> In the past I have used this patch by Luigi Rizzo, which helped me well.
>
> http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-ipfw/2003-September/000526.html
>
> I tried with a friend to port it to -STABLE, but we were not able to
> find out what has replaced mt_tag. Also on ip_input.c we dirty hacked
> to following piece of code:
>
> #ifdef IPFIREWALL_FORWARD
>        if (m->m_flags & M_FASTFWD_OURS) {
>                m->m_flags &= ~M_FASTFWD_OURS;
>                goto pass; /* XXX was 'ours' - SHOULD WE MODIFY IT HERE */
>        }
>        if ((dchg = (m_tag_find(m, PACKET_TAG_IPFORWARD, NULL) != NULL)) != 0) 
> {
>                /*
>                 * Directly ship the packet on.  This allows forwarding
>                 * packets originally destined to us to some other directly
>                 * connected host.
>                 */
>                ip_forward(m, dchg);
>                return;
>        }
> #endif /* IPFIREWALL_FORWARD */
>
> And this is something we are not sure if its correct.
>
> So my very obvious question is:
>
> Does anyone has a recent version of this patch to share?
>
> Can anyone familiar with ipfw source code help me with that?
>

I'm certainly not an expert, but I wonder if the patch your referring
to is still required? Can you provide more detail about your
particular application?

-Brandon
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