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Date:      Tue, 7 Mar 2000 00:16:36 -0500 (EST)
From:      Robert Watson <robert@cyrus.watson.org>
To:        Luigi Rizzo <luigi@info.iet.unipi.it>
Cc:        Ludo Koren <lk@tempest.sk>, ipfw@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: ipdivert and ethernet bridging
Message-ID:  <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1000307001533.16458B-100000@fledge.watson.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1000306212358.16458A-100000@fledge.watson.org>

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Aha, found it in ip_fw_chk, only the check is done after twiddling the
various parts of the IP header, not before... :-)

On Mon, 6 Mar 2000, Robert Watson wrote:

> 
> Luigi,
> 
> I've been reading through the bridge/ipfw code, and can't seem to find a
> place where eh->ether_type is checked to see if it is ETHERTYPE_IP before
> the firewall rules are evaluated.  I was wondering if the check is not
> taking place, or if so, where it takes place?
> 
> net/bridge.c:
> ...
>         /*
>          * before calling the firewall, swap fields the same as IP does.
>          * here we assume the pkt is an IP one and the header is
> contiguous
>          */
>         eh = mtod(m, struct ether_header *);
>         ip = (struct ip *)(eh + 1 ) ;
>         NTOHS(ip->ip_len);
>         NTOHS(ip->ip_id);
>         NTOHS(ip->ip_off);
> ...
> 
> Thanks,
> 
>   Robert N M Watson 
> 
> robert@fledge.watson.org              http://www.watson.org/~robert/
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> 
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