Forwarding

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

See also

• Perfect forwarding, a feature of the programming language C++11