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Date:      Sat, 19 Aug 2006 16:55:50 +0400
From:      Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Rajkumar S <rajkumars@gmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-net@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: ng_ip_input ?
Message-ID:  <20060819125550.GA8879@rambler-co.ru>
In-Reply-To: <64de5c8b0608190514l1c2241edj57b114997e01a8b2@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <64de5c8b0608190514l1c2241edj57b114997e01a8b2@mail.gmail.com>

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On Sat, Aug 19, 2006 at 05:44:39PM +0530, Rajkumar S wrote:
> The man page states
>=20
> DESCRIPTION
>     The ip_input node type takes all received packets and queues them into
>     the IP in input processing subsystem.
>=20
> Can some one elaborate where does this come in ip stack and what does
> this node do? I am not able to understand this just by reading the man
> page
>=20
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().


Cheers,
--=20
Ruslan Ermilov
ru@FreeBSD.org
FreeBSD committer

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