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Subject: Re: Reducing the need to compile a custom kernel
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On Sun, Feb 12, 2012 at 8:52 AM, Ian Smith <smithi@nimnet.asn.au> wrote:
> On Fri, 10 Feb 2012 16:12:00 +0000, Bjoern A. Zeeb wrote:
> =A0> > IPFIREWALL_FORWARD
>
> Unless something's changed, julian@ has pointed out (paraphrasing) that
> this adds bits of code to various parts of the stack and was thought to
> impact performance too much when unused to conditionalise each instance.
>
> I'm unsure if this is the only case ipfw still needs building in kernel?

If something's changed, I'd really love to hear it. IPFIREWALL_FORWARD
is the most common reason I need a custom kernel (usually to solve the
issues around asymmetric/source-based policy routing on multihomed
hosts).

Really miss Linux' "ip rule... table" functionality.

Regards,
--=20
Nino