ng_ip_input ?

[Julian Elischer]

Ruslan Ermilov wrote:

>On Sat, Aug 19, 2006 at 07:58:03PM +0530, Rajkumar S wrote:
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>>On 8/19/06, Ruslan Ermilov <ru at freebsd.org> wrote:
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>>>On Sat, Aug 19, 2006 at 07:05:49PM +0530, Rajkumar S wrote:
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>>>>Any points to docs to read about a packet's traversal in FreeBSD ip
>>>>stack? (especially wrt pf)
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>>>What level of detalization do you need?  Filters, such as pf(4), are
>>>embedded into the normal processing using the pfil(9) API.
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>>I am a relative newbie learning freebsd. A broad overview with
>>pointers to manpages are ideal.  like the the simple pointer to
>>pfil(9) you gave along with a small description of where it appears.
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>Then you can always start from reading the source code.
>It's been written by human beings.  :-)
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while the above seems harsh it turns out that /sys/netinet/ip_input.c is 
in fact a very easy file to
read due to the serial nature of ip processing.. give it a try

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>Cheers,
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