ng_ip_input ?

Rajkumar S rajkumars at gmail.com
Sat Aug 19 13:35:51 UTC 2006


On 8/19/06, Ruslan Ermilov <ru at freebsd.org> wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 19, 2006 at 05:44:39PM +0530, Rajkumar S wrote:
> > The man page states
> >
> > DESCRIPTION
> >     The ip_input node type takes all received packets and queues them into
> >     the IP in input processing subsystem.

> It does this simple thing:
>
> > netisr_dispatch(NETISR_IP, m);
>
> which means putting the mbuf pointed to by "m" into the IP
> input queue and scheduling a call to ip_input().

Thanks a lot for  your answer.

So this is used to inject packets into the ip stack? also, normally
packets received from ethernet is passed into the same point, right?
Any points to docs to read about a packet's traversal in FreeBSD ip
stack? (especially wrt pf)

raj


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