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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.bhp.com.au!mel.dit.csiro.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.wildstar.net!serv.hinet.net!news.cc.nctu.edu.tw!nctuccca.edu.tw!howland.reston.ans.net!swrinde!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!zib-berlin.de!news.tu-chemnitz.de!irz401!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: FreeBSD as a router Date: 3 May 1996 15:59:59 GMT Organization: Private FreeBSD site, Dresden Lines: 15 Message-ID: <4mdahv$hqu@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <4lfm8j$kn3@nuscc.nus.sg> <317CAABE.7DE14518@freebsd.org> <4m0mht$qcl@skipper.netrail.net> <4m1pjc$nle@itchy.serv.net> <DqMLuC.2xo@ritz.mordor.com> <4m39q0$bqu@shellx.best.com> <4m8a1t$7rr@samba.rahul.net> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 Rahul Dhesi <dhesi@rahul.net> writes: > How much route caching does FreeBSD do? It creates a `clone route' for each host where it had to apply a network route (of some sort) previously. You can look at the clone routes with ``netstat -ra''. These routes will be remembered for some time to speedup the packet switching. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)