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--quick
First, a little background information:
- IPv6 prefix P owns session entry S if P equals the network side of S’s local IPv6 address.
- IPv4 address A owns BIB entry B if A equals B’s IPv4 address.
If you --remove
or --flush
an owner, its “slaves” become obsolete because the relevant packets are no longer going to be translated.
- If you omit
--quick
while removing owners, Jool will get rid of the newly orphaned slaves. This saves memory and keeps entry lookup efficient during packet translations. - On the other hand, when you do issue
--quick
, Jool will only purge the owners. You might want to do this if you want the operation to succeed quickly (maybe you have a HUGE amount of slaves), or more likely you plan to re-add the owner in the future (in which case the still-remaining slaves will become relevant and usable again).
Orphaned slaves will remain inactive in the database, and will eventually kill themselves once their normal removal conditions are met (eg. orphaned sessions will die once their timeout expires).