kern/155604: [flowtable] Flowtable excessively caches dest MAC addresses for outgoing traffic

[Steve Polyack]

The following reply was made to PR kern/155604; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Steve Polyack <spolyack at collaborativefusion.com>
To: Gleb Smirnoff <glebius at FreeBSD.org>
Cc: bug-followup at FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: kern/155604: [flowtable] Flowtable excessively caches dest MAC
 addresses for outgoing traffic
Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2011 12:04:35 -0400

 On 10/17/2011 11:59 AM, Gleb Smirnoff wrote:
 >    Steve,
 >
 >    looks like this bug is fixed in 8.2 and later versions of FreeBSD.
 > Can I close the PR?
 >
 IMHO, the fix is merely a workaround (disabling FLOWTABLE by default in 
 the kernel configuration).  If a user turns flowtable on, they will 
 still encounter the same problem as I described.
 
 We don't have a reason to turn the flowtable feature back on, so it 
 doesn't really affect us either way.  I'll leave it up to you as to 
 whether you want to close it or have someone take a deeper look.
 
 Thanks for checking,
 
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