On Mon, Feb 18, 2002 at 10:04:58AM -0800, Crist J. Clark wrote:
> > > Do these patches help?
> > 
> > can you please summarise the problem and what the fix is trying to
> > achieve ?
> 
> I don't really understand what the problem might be, and the issue is

Precisely for this reason, what is that your patch is actually
trying to fix/achieve ? Without a goal, how can even test that
your code does what it supposed to do!

        cheers
        luigi

> further confused since I am not sure where to trust the ipfw(8) 'fwd'
> documentation and where not to. In -STABLE, it still says that only
> outgoing packets are 'fwd'ed, but that's not what the submitter's logs
> seem to indicate. The -CURRENT documentation does not make the
> distinction. I vaguely recall this "recent" change, but have not found
> anything all that recent in the commit logs. Back in the fall there
> was that merge from -STABLE to -CURRENT, and I wonder if the change
> was hidden in there. I have not been inspired enough to dig through
> ip_{{in,out}put,fw}.c to see just what is really going on. But with
> the ease I made that patch, I don't think there is as much divergence
> on the 'fwd' issue between -CURRENT and -STABLE as the documentation
> seems to imply. But I could easily be wrong.
> -- 
> Crist J. Clark                     |     [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> http://people.freebsd.org/~cjc/    |     [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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