From 283a495015ca01d059568f51c26718c6849c3af5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "Bruce A. Mah" <bmah@FreeBSD.org>
Date: Fri, 5 Dec 2003 21:34:31 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] New release note:  ip_fastforward.

Approved by:	re (implicitly)
---
 release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml    | 12 ++++++++++++
 release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/common/new.sgml | 12 ++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 24 insertions(+)

diff --git a/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml
index 62363c4e1f55..80def7d8539d 100644
--- a/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml
+++ b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml
@@ -378,6 +378,18 @@
     <sect3 id="net-proto">
       <title>Network Protocols</title>
 
+      <para>The <literal>ip_flow</literal> feature in the IPv4 protocol
+	implementation has been replaced by the
+	<literal>ip_fastforward</literal> feature.
+	<literal>ip_fastforward</literal> attempts to speed up simple
+	cases of packet forwarding, processing a forwarded packet to
+	an outgoing interface without queues or netisrs.  If it cannot
+	handle a particular packet, it passes that packet to the normal
+	<literal>ip_input</literal> routines for processing.  This
+	feature can be enabled by setting the
+	<varname>net.inet.ip.fastforwarding</varname> sysctl variable
+	to <literal>1</literal>.
+
       <para>The <literal>IP_ONESBCAST</literal> option has been added
 	to enable undirected &man.ip.4; broadcasts to be sent to
 	specific network interfaces.</para>
diff --git a/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/common/new.sgml b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/common/new.sgml
index 62363c4e1f55..80def7d8539d 100644
--- a/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/common/new.sgml
+++ b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/common/new.sgml
@@ -378,6 +378,18 @@
     <sect3 id="net-proto">
       <title>Network Protocols</title>
 
+      <para>The <literal>ip_flow</literal> feature in the IPv4 protocol
+	implementation has been replaced by the
+	<literal>ip_fastforward</literal> feature.
+	<literal>ip_fastforward</literal> attempts to speed up simple
+	cases of packet forwarding, processing a forwarded packet to
+	an outgoing interface without queues or netisrs.  If it cannot
+	handle a particular packet, it passes that packet to the normal
+	<literal>ip_input</literal> routines for processing.  This
+	feature can be enabled by setting the
+	<varname>net.inet.ip.fastforwarding</varname> sysctl variable
+	to <literal>1</literal>.
+
       <para>The <literal>IP_ONESBCAST</literal> option has been added
 	to enable undirected &man.ip.4; broadcasts to be sent to
 	specific network interfaces.</para>