Forwarding Explained

Forwarding may refer to:

• Call forwarding, a telephony feature which allows calls to one phone number to be forwarded to another number
• Cisco Express Forwarding, an advanced layer 3 switching technology used mainly on the enterprise core network or the Internet
• E-mail forwarding, a mechanism by which a mail server sends the emails of one of its user's to another address
• Forwarding equivalence class, a set of packets with similar or identical characteristics which may be forwarded the same way
• Freight forwarding, a service by which an individual or company dispatches shipments via common carriers
• Mail forwarding, a service that redirects mail from one address to another
• Packet forwarding, the relaying of packets from one network segment to another by nodes in a computer network
• Port forwarding, the act of forwarding a network port from one network node to another
• Remote call forwarding, a telephony feature that allows call forwarding to be activated remotely
• Unicast Reverse path forwarding, a feature of Internet Protocol routers that is used to reduce the risk of customers attacking other Internet hosts
• Multicast Reverse path forwarding, a technique used in multicast routing to ensure loop free topologies
• URL redirection, also called URL forwarding, domain redirection and domain forwarding, a technique that forwards web page visitors to another page, which may or may not be on another domain, depending the purpose of the forwarding
• Timber forwarding, the transport of logs from the stump to the forest road.