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From: Archie Cobbs <archie@whistle.com>
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Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/netinet in.h ip_fw.h ip_input.c ip_output.c
To: pst@jnx.com (Paul Traina)
Date: Thu, 22 Aug 1996 16:27:39 -0700 (PDT)
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> The "diversion/firewall/accounting/nat" code should basicly consist of a
> linked list of these data/control routines, and you just run through the
> entire linked list, taking the output from one operation and feeding it
> into the input of the next (assuming no-one swallowed the packet).

Sounds good. This would make it easy then to add something that's been
missing from the divert code, i.e., a socket option to specify whether
or not to reassemble packets before diverting them.

-Archie

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