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From: Luigi Rizzo <rizzo@icir.org>
To: Andre Oppermann <andre@freebsd.org>
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Subject: Re: Policy routing idea (Was: ipfw: Would it be possible tocontinue
	processing rest of rules after match ?)
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On Wed, Jun 22, 2005 at 02:53:46PM +0200, Andre Oppermann wrote:
...
> > i suggest to implement a new action 'setnexthop' which stores the
> > next hop as an MTAG with the packet (so it is preserved if the
> > packet gets passed to dummynet).
> 
> Please don't store routing table pointers.  All the locking due

that would be just an IP address, not the table pointer.

	cheers
	luigi