Datagrams Forwarded/sec is the rate, in incidents per second, at which attemps were made to find routes to forward input ...

Datagrams Forwarded/sec is the rate, in incidents per second, at which attemps were made to find routes to forward input datagrams their final destination, because the local server was not the final IP destination. In servers that do not act as IP Gateways, this rate includes only packets that were source-routed via this entity, where the source-route option processing was successful.