And why make it one-directional only? It shouldn't improve performance. So it's rather an "IP router" than "fwdswitch". many2many IP routing node would be useful in many situations.
Yuri > The fwdswitch node, could be imagined as a 'many2many' node but > monodirectional only: packets flow from 'in' hooks to 'out' hooks > only. The decision about which 'out' hook to choose to forward a > packet is taken going through a forwarding table that associates > an IPaddress/netmask to an output hook index. Packets that are not > matched or frames that are not IP packets will be forwarded to the > 'default' hook. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message