Sticky pf(4)-like feature in ipfw?

[Chris Dionissopoulos]

Thanks for your help.
"Sticky" was more a wordplay than an technical description , 
just more people to understand at first reading what i want to do.

Chris.



> the 'state only based on the 3-tuple' as you describe it
> is certainly an interesting feature. It is slightly more expensive
> to implement than what i thought at first, because you should
> do two hash computations and lookups (one on the 5-tuple, one
> on the 3-tuple) on each packet trying to match a dynamic rule.
> 
> i just wonder why it is named 'sticky' in pf
> which is not really very indicative of what the function does.
> 
> cheers
> luigi


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