From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Jul 14 13:50:50 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk (pc-62-31-42-140-hy.blueyonder.co.uk [62.31.42.140]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2029E37B407 for ; Sat, 14 Jul 2001 13:50:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nik@nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk) Received: (from nik@localhost) by nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk (8.11.3/8.11.3) id f6EKRpb94838 for hackers@freebsd.org; Sat, 14 Jul 2001 21:27:51 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from nik) Date: Sat, 14 Jul 2001 21:27:51 +0100 From: Nik Clayton To: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Diagram / description of a packets path Message-ID: <20010714212751.A94755@clan.nothing-going-on.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-md5; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="FCuugMFkClbJLl1L" Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i Organization: FreeBSD Project Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --FCuugMFkClbJLl1L Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable How do, Something I've wanted for a while, and not found (and don't know enough to write myself) is a description of the path an IP packet takes through the kernel, and where things like ipfw, ipfilter, natd, ipdivert, and so on, take effect. =20 Something like (and keep in mind I've got no idea how accurate this is): [in] <-- Interface the packet arrives on (e.g., fxp0) | | V [ipfw] <----------. <-- Processing by IPFW || | |`----[divert]--' <-- Processing by IPFW divert rules V [...] and so on. Anyone up for this? N --=20 FreeBSD: The Power to Serve http://www.freebsd.org/ FreeBSD Documentation Project http://www.freebsd.org/docproj/ --- 15B8 3FFC DDB4 34B0 AA5F 94B7 93A8 0764 2C37 E375 --- --FCuugMFkClbJLl1L Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (FreeBSD) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iEYEARECAAYFAjtQq0YACgkQk6gHZCw343VwjACdGbk5nkneCaiuaRyd3G++Tw0S mZUAnjfPV8xrdpY0fw2D8NGlvx+FNbaZ =onzZ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --FCuugMFkClbJLl1L-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message