svn commit: r186585 - user/kmacy/HEAD_fast_net/sys/netinet

[Kip Macy]

On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 8:41 AM, Bruce M. Simpson <bms at freebsd.org> wrote:
> Kip Macy wrote:
>>
>> Author: kmacy
>> Date: Tue Dec 30 04:38:39 2008
>> New Revision: 186585
>> URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/186585
>>
>> Log:
>>  make ipv4 forwarding flowtable aware
>>
>
> This is so that we continue to use the same IPv4 next-hop consistently in an
> ECMP enabled kernel for sockets, right?


Caching the rtentry in the inpcb (an earlier commit) already does that
for connected sockets. This allows ip_forward to consistently forward
packets to the same host so that ECMP can be used for server load
balancing.

Cheers,
Kip