Forwarding
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Forwarding may refer to:
Computing and technology
- Call forwarding, a telephony feature that allows calls to one phone number to be forwarded to another number
- Remote call forwarding, a telephony feature that allows call forwarding to be activated remotely
- Cisco Express Forwarding, an advanced layer 3 switching technology used mainly on the enterprise core network or the Internet
- Mail forwarding, a service that redirects mail from one address to another
- Email forwarding, the re-sending of an email message onward to another email address
- Operand forwarding in an instruction pipeline
- Packet forwarding, the relaying of packets from one network segment to another by nodes in a computer network
- Forwarding equivalence class, a set of packets with similar or identical characteristics that may be forwarded the same way
- Port forwarding, the act of forwarding a network port from one network node to another
- Reverse path forwarding, a technique used in routers for ensuring loop-free forwarding of packets in multicast routing and to help prevent IP address spoofing in unicast routing
- URL redirection, also called URL forwarding, domain redirection and domain forwarding, a technique that forwards web page visitors to another page
Other uses
- Freight forwarding, a service by which a freight forwarder dispatches shipments via common carriers
- Timber forwarding, the transport of logs from the stump to the forest road
- Perfect forwarding, a feature of the programming language C++11
- Routing
See also
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