Freebsd IP Forwarding performance (question, and some info) [7-stable, current, em, smp]

[Ingo Flaschberger]

Dear Alex,

>    >if possible, a ned header is created at the other network-cards-buffer
>    >and the ip-data is copied from network-card-buffer to network-card-buffer
>    >directly.
>
> So how does one enable "ip fast forwarding" on FreeBSD ?

sysctl -w net.inet.ip.fastforwarding=1

usually interface polling is also chosen to prevent "lock-ups".
man polling

kind regards,
 	Ingo Flaschberger