Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2005 15:30:16 -0700 From: Luigi Rizzo <rizzo@icir.org> To: Alex de Kruijff <freebsd@akruijff.dds.nl> Cc: ipfw@freebsd.org Subject: Re: error in man ipfw / divert Message-ID: <20050721153016.A87676@xorpc.icir.org> In-Reply-To: <20050721214242.GA2201@Alex.lan>; from freebsd@akruijff.dds.nl on Thu, Jul 21, 2005 at 11:42:42PM %2B0200 References: <20050721214242.GA2201@Alex.lan>
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On Thu, Jul 21, 2005 at 11:42:42PM +0200, Alex de Kruijff wrote: > Hi, > > I was wrondering is man ipfw wrong here? > > man ipfw tells: divert port - > Divert packets that match this rule to the divert(4) socket > bound to port port. The search terminates. ... > I think man ipfw should say something like: > > when nothing is listening on the port then the search terminates > > when something is listening on the port then the search continues from > the same rule. as far as ipfw is concerned, the search terminates. it is up to the userland app to reinject the packet, and it might well not do so if the packet should be processed differntly. so i believe the ipfw manpage is correct. if you want to add a reference to the divert manpage feel free to do so, something like for more details on the operation of divers sockets see divert(4) cheers luigi
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