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From: "Xin LI" <delphij@frontfree.net>
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Date: Sat, 17 Jan 2004 12:17:48 +0800
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Subject: Newbie question: is net.inet.ip.fastforwarding intended for routers
	only?
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As title. To my imagination (I have taken a sight on the kernel networking
code), the fastforwarding path is intended for routers only, so if I want
some functionalities, for example, NAT, the fastforwarding is not useful,
and my experiment shows that if I enable it, ipfilter's NAT will be broken.
Am I right?

Thanks in advance!

Xin LI